I understand your frustration. This situation happens here in the USA also. Here at the State of California we had a major budget crisis last year and had to let some of our service contracts expire.
The thing is that here in the USA (and many other countries) the agreements between vendors and customers are enforced by the courts. Sometimes breaking an agreement by posting code can be very expensive, and may involve jail time for the individuals involved. This makes it unlikely that anyone would risk posting the code. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nilson Vieira Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 5:15 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Sles 8.0 service pack 2.0 and 3.0 Read me now Mr Mark. Once we had the maintnance contract with suse but expired last month. But the thing down here in South America, to renew the contract is slow i can maintain contact with suse distribuitor. this is the point, im not ask you any favor? Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:45 PM Subject: Re: Sles 8.0 service pack 2.0 and 3.0 Read my note again. I never said it was illegal. I think it is, however, in bad taste to beg others to provide for free what they've paid good (and big) money for. There are no-cost Linux/390 distributions out there, and they work just fine. If someone is unable or unwilling to pay for maintenance from SUSE or Red Hat, then use one of the no-cost variants. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of saulo Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:59 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Sles 8.0 service pack 2.0 and 3.0 Mark , If you make avaliable a copy of SP2 oe SP3 from Suse you will not be a Napster . If you don't remember Suse and Linux for s/390 still a GPL software . So you can share that with anyone with no charge for you or anybody . No one are against the law with you share that . Sorry but you are wrong . Saulo Augusto Silva RHCE - LPI Em Ter, 2005-05-03 C s 11:19 -0400, Post, Mark K escreveu: > Nilson, > > You already asked for this once. If you didn't get any response > before, I doubt you will now. So, please stop asking. None of us > here need to get the reputation of being the Linux/390 equivalents of > Napster. > > > Mark Post > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
