UCITA drafters don't go far enough for Red Hat (Register) [LWN.net]

UCITA drafters don't go far enough for Red Hat (Register)

Posted Aug 9, 2002 9:53 UTC (Fri) by sergiori (guest, #3180)
In reply to: UCITA drafters don't go far enough for Red Hat (Register) by beejaybee
Parent article: UCITA drafters don't go far enough for Red Hat (Register)

First of all in regards to Brians post, the portion of open source public domain in linux distribution is very small about 1% of the software so his comments mostly do not apply, most of it is open source GLP software which is different than open source public domain.

Anyway the UCITA needs to be killed, since it will hurt badly the open software industry, not only Red Hat. If you get something for free you should not hurt the person that is being nice it is simply unethical.

Red Hat and others have been very nice to the community for providing great linux distributions. Why should it be acceptable to have laws which only hurt the open software industry.

It is unresonable to except the software to be bug free, I have personally never seen an OS bug free, there are millions lines of codes the kernel alone, add to that the software that makes up the distribution.

I tried to read the UCITA law once and it is very confusing, there are many clauses, it is very long, and I do not see in any way whatsoever how this can be of any help for the open software industry.

Linux is by far better than windows, and very stable, but it is not bug free, if you wait for a bug free OS to exist, you may not ever get to see that OS.

In recent history the first attack on open source software was the DMCA, now because of the DMCA you can not legally in USA watch a DVD rom you legally purchased using linux, this is bull shit, if you buy a DVD rom you should legally be able to view in your platform of choice, but due to the DMCA this is not the case, and now we have UCITA, this is clearly not good.

You have to ask yourself the question what good has UCITA done for you, and what good has Red Hat done for you ?
In my case the answer is simple UCITA, none, Red Hat has done lots of good in helping the linux industry get ahead, providing an excelent distribution for all of us, now all distributions are in the same boat, so
I believe that without UCITA it will be best for all the distributions, especially for the smaller onces.

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