On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:24, Scott H wrote:
> -- From: "Derek Neighbors" 
> > > What's to prevent me from buying RHEL,
> > > removing references to RH and RH
> > > logos, then selling it as FEL (Fred's
> > > Enterprise Linux )?
> > 
> > I am not sure if there is anything preventing
> > you from doing that. However, I see two
> > issues.
> > 
> > 1. No one is really doing it well at this
> > point.  So Red Hat and their
> > "license + support" is the only current
> > option.
> 
> Actually, Whitebox Linux (www.whiteboxlinux.org)
> is doing exactly that, and quite well.  They
> built from RHEL v3 and even call it White Box
> Enterprise Linux (WBEL) version 3.  The project
> is legit and legal. I verified with a RH rep that
> if the RH trademarks and logos and so forth are
> removed, there is nothing preventing this, since
> all of RH's work is under GPL.  Of course, WBEL
> comes with no support or any of the other
> advantages to RHEL, like their web-based
> administration and provisioning tools, which are
> great enterprise features.  WBEL is just another
> option - one that fills a gap between RHEL and
> Fedora.
> 
> There are other projects doing similar work, I
> think like "cAos" or some such, but this one is
> in the lead on it, and the WBEL project is
> dedicated to maintaining maximum conformance with
> the RHEL line.  
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I think most of use knew about the whitebox 'product' and I am quite
certain that I referred to it the other day when I related some
metaphors about 'ahem' cheap dates.

Craig