Re: [OSS] RE: Local Vietnamese Linux Distros

Dear Tuan,

I do appreciate your clarification very much! :))

At 01:08 18.03.2003 +0000, you wrote:
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>At present Vietkey Linux is free to be copied and distributed by everybody.

Good.
Nevertheless, it would be perfectly legal, if you charge some reasonable
fees for copying, or if you have some "nice box" with manuals, or if you
include some services (like a hotline).

>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.

I meant it is of the "RedHat Branch", like several other famous distros.
Nothing wrong with that. And ... as said ... this "classification" is not
from me, but somebody else.

>Open Office (English Version) is included with Vietkey Linux Distro.

OK, then it is probably our common goal to get a really "free" Vietnamese
OpenOffice version (?). ;)

Tuan, can we (list members, as well as the Linux User Groups) do anything
to promote your distro - and any other one, which is truly "free" and
specially adapted for Vietnam?

Best Regards,
Stefan

>-----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.

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