Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Örn Hansen <orn.hansen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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  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