Dear Alex, So you are completely comfortable with your customers knowing that your business practices include using the SUSE distro in a way that SUSE has asked you not to? You must think your customers are as unscruple-less as you are. During my business career I found that the good will of your suppliers and customers is the most important thing one needs to prosper. Why not use the ftp version that SUSE willing and freely offers? SUSE is in no position to negotiate permission for you to commercially offer the commercial products that they supply to their customers according to carefully agreed upon conditions with the owners of those commercial products. You mention SCO; do you want the community of potential customers to have the same regard for you and your practices? Take a while to think this over. PeterB On Saturday 22 November 2003 04:10 pm, Alex Daniloff wrote:
On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:19 am, LAW999 wrote: <snipped>
If a company selling software is of the opinion that a practice is in breach of its licence or that it would not like others to follow, users should respect that. Giving away "free" a version of SuSE linux with commercial offerings is not in the spirit of the terms under which SuSE supplied its Linux distribution. Under such circumstances an agreement should be sought SuSE, which would not act unreasonably.
Just my 0.02p worth.
LW999
If it's so, then you have to respect SCO's opinion and buy a license to use Linux directly from them. Company opinion or "spirit of the terms" has to be legally outlined in the software license itself. If it hasn't been done properly, then it's just a
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