-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philipp Thomas schrieb:
| Even if you know people that provide you with access, you can't offer | those packages openly without being sued. So there is no legal way to do | something like CentOS, unless you're willing to do the maintenance | yourself. You are probably right, but most of the software contained by SLES is GPL. Thus the question is how much time would it take for let say 4 Eastern European hackers to remove the dependencies to the proprietary binaries from the source code and do so for future maintenance as well? I can't define it at will. Can you? Maybe Novell can and thus feels such sure about not having any such competition in the near future. But this is IMO only a minor aspect of the discussion. The main problem is that there are other rpm based distributions which provide stable LTS releases. Thus ask yourself what would one do if forced to use e.g. centos on his server? Will he switch to fedora on his wks as well? Will he ever come back to Opensuse? What distro will he be forcing at his job in the future? SLES or e.g. RHEL? Change is slow, even in the computer industry, but when it starts it might be unstoppable and there might be no time for late reconsiderations. And no, I'm not a reincarnation of Nostradamus. Even if I sometimes sound like a one. ROTFL. Please take also into account that I do wish well for both Opensuse and Novell. If wouldn't do so, then I wouldn't even have 'engaged' into this discussion and thus would consider myself as a troll. - -- All the best, Peter J. N. aedon DESIGNS http://www.hochzeitsbuch.info http://www.hochzeitsbuch.selfip.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHniPxh8q3OtgoGAwRAuhVAJ9+F2rjGsK29ED+Q2AQSqfeQwhk9QCdFNe+ tP0KxnZ1M7bjAEOuRqamIXE= =nfb7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
