On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:04:00AM -0400, SOTL wrote: > Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > > >On Monday 07 August 2006 15:52, Per Jessen wrote: > > > > > > > >>Would you care to elaborate? Whether or not an enterprise uses SLED or > >>openSUSE is only a matter of IT policy, not features nor anything else. > >> > >> > The above would be nice if it were true but it is not true. > > OpenSuSE does not contain any non open source programs ie ones that may > not be used without paying royalties. > > SLED is a commercial program which does contain non open source programs > ie ones in which one must pay royalties to use. > > If you do not need the non open source programs then of course they are > then equivalent but if of course you need such programs to make your > system work then they are not equivalent. > > Last I heard most win modem programs are non open source.
SLED does not have binary only kernel modules either (with 1 exception), so no WinModem binary support in SLED 10. > That would seem to imply that if one wanted a laptop to use its internal > to connect to the internet and that one was not a geek then would need > to purchase SuSE. We would really like to make everything work out of the box but we have to work with the current laws. Paying us does not help here. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
