On Saturday 22 November 2003 23:10, Alex Daniloff wrote:
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SuSE consists on 99.9% of GPL software derived from the public domain. Even RPM, on which YaST relies to operate, was created by Red Hat and GPLed. Practically SuSE=YaST.
Well, most of the above is more or less obvious. But, in the above case, you forgot to mention the *hard* case of licenses. The Microsoft License, where they *sell* you the right to use their software. Which, of course, is a void license. If, a company like Microsoft, can get away with selling their software on the shelves of stores. Where it's not really *it* being sold, only the illusion of *it* or the *non physical right to use*, which of course is *not a public commercial practice*, then I think we better be careful in our steps. We have all seen the facts, that courts and justice is not about individual rights, but rather being able to afford the services of the law itself. And although we all love to sit by the TV and watch the actors in the movie, showing us the heartbreaking stories about how justice, truth and integrity won in the end. The fact, that we had to rent or buy the movies in the stores, merely to get this brief feeling of wellbeing by watching that theatric performance. Should be more than enough for every intelligent being, to check out reality. So, while it is true that SuSE = YaST. Most users buying SuSE, including myself. Use this distribution, because of YaST. It does a darn good job, and incidentally ... if you do install this on your client machines for free, I do think that the use of YaST would have to be excluded. Which, of course, is quite hard to do. :)
Alex