Robert, On Wednesday 16 January 2002 08:13, you said something about: > RedHat, but I think it is a licensing rule of the GNU project or something > which might implies that this rule would also apply to Suse. > > Someone correct me if I'm mistaken.
Actually all of them must make the _source code_ available (for free) for anything they distribute that carries the GPL License. This does not mean "FREE" for anything else. However, community pressure would keep just about any vendor from trying to not make their distros available for free. The biggest difference as far as the aquisition of these two particular distros, is that Red Hat provides ISOs of the CDs that they distribute and SuSE does not. This makes getting RH without charge easier. You can do the same with SuSE, but you'd have to get all the files from their FTP, assemble them into a distribution and create a bootable (or not) CD(s). While a hurdle, it is not an insurmountable one. And it does nothing to hinder network installs (once you get everything). Also you can get the ones from http://www.cheapbytes.com (though it will be called something else) and they will save you the download time if you are on a small bandwidth connection. But when you find a distro that makes you happy, try to buy one from time to time. It helps to keep the companies that provide full-time Linux developers in business. I have kept to doing one purchase per major release (4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x). I also make sure that my customers pay for it (they still see it as a huge savings over M$ and seem to think that they haven't gotten something unless they pay for it.) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
