redhat 7.2

[Drake Diedrich]

   Everything Linux didn't write more than an insignificant fraction of the
software on those CDs (if any), and has no moral authority to demand that
they be the sole distributor.  They certainly (under the GPL and other free
licenses) don't have legal authority to insist on such a monopoly.  If they
were primary developers (thinking FSF's $x00 CD sets, Redhat's boxed sets)
they might be able to make some money selling for a premium over the copying
cost, but second/third tier redistributors just aren't going to be able to
do that without adding something (a dead-wood book, a help line, hardware
consultation services, pre-installation, bulk mastered CDROMs cheaper than
CDR+copying hassles, ...)
   Andrew certainly has the legal right to redistribute free software, and
in many ways has at least a strong ethical obligation to do so - the
authors gave him the free software with the intention that he share it.
If he doesn't he isn't really giving anything back to the community that has
given him this software.