On Thursday 06 December 2001 08:48, you wrote: > I asked accounts at SuSE for the pricing. > They told me, that their new distribution is only avaiable with a > one-year-maintenance-packet.
perhaps someone from SuSE could confirm or negate this point ? I am personnally waiting to see the SLES7, or at least a light set of ISO images on their ftp site. how could we anyway test their distribution if we are urged to buy it ? > costs: > 31bit version -> 11500 (11000$) per processor/engine! > 64bit version -> 14500 (14000$) per processor/engine! > > Thats not the philosophie of Linux. > I think they have to make their distribution avaiable for free download! philosophy has IMO nothing to do with that : what are the implications of the GPL and LGPL licenses, that cover almost all their source packages ? I think they must release a least the sources, and that if someone buy their distribution, it will be completely legal to redistribute all the GPL /LGPL source packages (expected YaST and other scripts, for sure). >From a commercial point of view - SuSE should release its distribution, because i think most people here doesn't want a particular distribution, but support and maintenance, and not expecially provided by SuSE. > > > Frank Schwede > > > -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von > > Nicolaas Potgieter > > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2001 08:03 > > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Betreff: Re: New Suse Enterprise Server > > > > Hi > > > > Does anybody knows if the new Suse Enterprise Server will be > > available for > > FTP download or do the customer have to pay to use a free operating > > system.?? > > > > Nico Potgieter > > IT Specialist > > S/390 Projects, ITS > > > > Tel: +27 (0) 11 3028636 > > Cell: +27 (0) 82 573 5833 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] work=0149092200:2782
