* Hartmut Meyer (hartmut.meyer@web.de) [031122 14:58]:
Hi,
Am Samstag, 22. November 2003 23:10 schrieb Alex Daniloff:
It can be installed on Red Hat, Debian and other distros with the same functionality. You can even charge your client a consulting fee for installing Linux and be legally out of YaST license bounds.
You're *well* off here.
Pure ignorance :-(
Umm. No he's not. You can charge a client a consulting feel to install software an pay no mind to the license that governs the software. As long as that client has purchased that software legally and has a license. You wouldn't have to pay SUSE another license fee because you installed it for someone else. In fact if I were to go to Fry's and purchase a SUSE box then take it to a client site. I could charge them for installation of said software, reimbursement for picking up the software for them and for the boxed software itself as long as I didn't charge them more then the retail store charged me. If I can do this Microsoft software and I have done this with their software and not get in trouble for it then I doubt SUSE would have grounds to stand on. Now if I ordered a large amount of SUSE boxes from SUSE and resold them to individuals at a profit that would be wrong. If I made copies and sold them at a profit with other software I produced then I could see that being shaky but just to charge a client a consulting fee to install software isn't / wouldn't be violating anything. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org -- Why do we bother with a suicide watch when someone is on deathrow? " Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."