discuss: TLDP and the Commercial World


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Subject: Re: TLDP and the Commercial World
From: Mendel Cooper ####@####.####
Date: 28 Feb 2005 16:35:51 -0000
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Stein Gjoen wrote:

> The only cases of abuse I know of so far are those of SCO putting
> a non-compliant license to their locally hosted copy TLDP collection
> and several cases of rampant advertising added to HOWTOs. As far as
> I know these cases have not been too problematic.

In fact, the SCO Group "hosting" and hijacking of obsolete TLDP documents
was problematic, and remains so. They pretty much thumbed their noses
at authors requesting that their documents be removed from the SCO site.

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