What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
Posted Jul 16, 2008 6:42 UTC (Wed) by louie (guest, #3285)In reply to: What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to by clugstj
Parent article: What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
<i>Why else would you give such liberal terms...?</i> As Red Hat pointed out when they first announced this, GPL gives them a nice negotiating stick for this sort of thing. RH sits down at the negotiating table and says 'either go away, give us these very liberal terms, or fight us to the death, since less liberal terms mean we have to shut down our business.' If the troll does not want to fight to the death and does not want to go away, they have to settle for these terms. Unusual, admittedly, but the only option RH has and hence the only option an anti-RH troll has.
