Sybex gets it "slightly" wrong in France

Sybex gets it "slightly" wrong in France

Post by **Nick Brow » Thu, 22 Apr 1999 04:00:00



According to the French hacker mag "Le Virus Informatique" (and they
publish a pic of the box to prove it), the Sybex distribution of Rad Hat
5.2 in France has a couple of, erm, minor problems.

First, it says "requires Windows 95/98".  I presume that the moron who
is paid to write the disk covers wasn't awake that day.

Then, before you open the disks, you have to read a little manual saying
"Sybex Original Software" (uh-huh) and accept a license saying
"Reproduction in whole or in part forbidden", etc etc.  Can anyone say
GPL ?

Finally, they forgot to include the sources.  Dear oh dear.

Oh yes, and it's shipping today with.. KDE beta 4.  Hmmm.

More (in French) at http://www.acbm.com.  I did say it was a hacker mag;
their home page even has a link to www.kevinmitnick.com !

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