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Closed betas and the GPL

Closed betas and the GPL

Posted Sep 19, 2002 12:09 UTC (Thu) by dpilot (guest, #2645)
Parent article: Closed betas and the GPL

Is this the right place to put a "Red Hat is becoming the next Microsoft!" comment? Last I saw, the Null betas were public, and drawing a lot of comment over the whole GNOME/KDE personality thing.


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Closed betas and the GPL

Posted Sep 19, 2002 12:35 UTC (Thu) by bluetea (guest, #1108) [Link]

On the subject of RedHat, it's worth pointing out that RedHat has also made Rawhide available for a long, long time. That's where the most current and least tested versions of packages show up - like Debian unstable.

Re: Closed betas and the GPL

Posted Sep 20, 2002 17:03 UTC (Fri) by X-Nc (guest, #1661) [Link]

RH has had all of their betas available to the world since I can remember. Well before Mandrake and possibably before Debian. Slackware has also had betas available to everyone, though I do not now details of those. I think it was unfair to single out Mandrake & Debian in this article.

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