RE: [OSS] Local Vietnamese Linux Distros

At present Vietkey Linux is free to be copied and distributed by everybody.
BTW Vietkey Linux is not Redhat Distro as someone mentioned, thouth it uses
RPM and anaconda lib from Redhat like Turbo Linux and many other. Open
Office (English Version) is included with Vietkey Linux Distro.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Probst [mailto:stefan.probst@opticom.v-nam.net]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:52 AM
To: dangtuan@hn.vnn.vn
Subject: [OSS] Local Vietnamese Linux Distros

Dear All,

can anybody tell me, where Vietkey and CMC sell their distros, and how much
they charge for it?

Thank you and best Regards,

Stefan

PS: here an excerpt of an article in Vietnam News of today (Mon. 17.3.3,
page 5). I will post the URL of the whole article, as soon as it is online
(probably tomorrow afternoon).

Headline:
Team of Vietkey creators enter big time
Author:
Viet Thang
<quote>
...
Vietkey Linux will develop a firewall to protect their software from
unauthorized copying. However, Hong Anh emphasised that authorised organs
should use all of their powers to control copyright violations.
...
<unquote>

A "firewall to protect their software from unauthorized copying" does not
make much sense. I assume, that the author did not get the meaning and it
should say in reality "a personal firewall to protect users from
unauthorized access to their PCs."

Also, I find it interesting, that Vietkey's "promotion strategy" is, to ask
"authorised organs" to "control" the unauthorised use of MS Software, since
their Linux Distro (I heard it is kind of a mini RH distro, with KDE, but
no OpenOffice), is obviously free to be copied and distributed by everybody.

To facilitate co-ordination regarding the introduction of OSS SW in Vietnam

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