On Saturday 22 November 2003 08:32 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Saturday 22 November 2003 4:10 pm, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Is this violating SUSE's license agreement?
Line item #1 SUSE 9.0 Pro $79.99 Line item #2 Installation on 2 servers, 10 workstations 2hours @ $150/hr $300.00 Line item #3 Training 2hours @ $150/hr $300.00
Total billed to customer $679.99
I purchase one copy of SUSE 9.0 Pro for the customer online, shipped to my business address. I install it at my customer's site for 2 servers and 10 workstations (I'm really good and use AutoYast, etc). My customers are almost as bright as me and take to SUSE very well. I leave the one package of SUSE 9.0 Pro with the customer.
Is this violating any license?
Thanks, Stan
Ok, so $300 for the installs, $300 for training, and $79.99 for the SUSE pro box set. What's the problem. Your just an intermediary. You did not take a cut from the box set, which would have meant increasing the price, for argument sake... say $100 for the SUSE box set then you would have had made twenty bucks and that would have most likely have led to a violation. but your not reselling it. You're simply acquiring it for a patron and the patron is reimbursing you, you make no financial profit other than that of your time. Considering that one can go to the software store to buy the box set for $79.99 and it is assumed that the retail store didn't pay $79.99 per box because there would be no profit in it. They most likely get a volume discount. Your not doing that either so no problem AFAICT. The whole thing revolves around middle men jacking the price, like I mentioned before, say $100. This could potentially hurt SuSE because someone could be coerced to jack the price of the box set so much that sales would suffer, either for greed sake or a sly deal set up by a competitor that wants to drive market share down. Just an observation. Cheers, Curtis.