On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 19:46:28 +0100 (CET) Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... some reasons *for me* I probably never will touch SuSe even > with my fingertips: > > 1: > As far as I understood it, you cannot easily download a free complete > SuSe version as you still can do this with RedHat. > > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Apr/0010.html > > > According to > http://www.linuxiso.org/suse.html > > " ... Intel 7.3 Live Evaluation iso (runs from cd only) ... " > > True, you can't d/l a free iso image and install from that. But you *can* downlad via FTP and do a network install. Or, if you have broadband, you could conceivably do network install over the Internet. > 2: > > But the fact you can use a real SuSe system only -- as it seems -- if you > have enough money to pay for it is not the most important compared to the > following: > > "YaST is not free software" (Note: Yast is property of Suse) > http://lists.cglug.org/pipermail/members/2000q3/000022.html > > Their Yast license basically says you can change the Yast source, but > you're not allowed to sell it without "written consent of SuSE GmbH", but > Suse is allowed to *sell* your edited version: > > http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pub/linux/distributions/SuSE/7.2/COPYRIGHT.yast > " ... SuSE GmbH reserves the right to accept parts or all amendments of a > modified version of YaST into the official version of YaST free of > charge. The Licensee has no bearing on this. ... " > > And this exactly is why I say Suse have given up more or less the idea of > Free Software, with the consequence, that I advise everybody interested in > it to buy every possible Linux distro she or he wants to test *except* the > Suse one. > Have to disagree w/ you there. SuSE does sponsor a lot of the work done on KDE and the Linux kernel as well, plus ReiserFS, LVM, and a few others. The fact that they choose to keep their installer/admin tool proprietary bites, to be sure, but is somewhat understandable. People seem to have the misconception that a company has to give away all of it's crown jewels to be truly a part of the 'Open Source' community. If I'm not mistaken, SuSE does make the source to yast accessible, they just think that they have put a lot of work into it and would rather not give it away, seeng as how they contribute heavily to the community already. Just a thought, Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
