On Wednesday 06 April 2005 02:06, Donn Washburn wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Mayank Jain wrote:
Hi all,
When will be SuSE 9.3 be out for public? any rough idea? thnx.
What will the advantage be if someone buys 9.3 over 9.2?.
My UK shipper says the end of the month, so hopefully we shall be seeing stuff on the list in a couple of weeks. Perfectly legal, you can buy one copy and deploy it, copy it, give it away, but not sell it. Regards Sid.
OK great! How about 10 people tossing into a pot 10 dollars and each making a copy from one purchase?
HiHi!
Not illegal, but a bit cheap if you come from a hard currency country and have a job, I'd say. Red Hat's recent good financial results are said in the press to be a result of their subscription-based updates, so they have steady revenue. I'd like to see Novell continue to put SuSE out with free updates and one-off purchases. I also don't want to see the consumer / home product hived off like Fedora. Now I know I'm comparing apples and oranges to a degree in this, but it seems to me to be important that Novell do shift enough units and thus stay interested in keeping SuSE what it is. I also know there are plenty of people around the world who would find it very hard to come up with the dollars / euros, and they should be copying like mad. But if you've got a half-reasonable dollar / euro / sterling income, I think it would be a good move for the future of Linux we all hope to enjoy to actually spring for a set of original disks. You get a great deal for your buck, after all. Cheers Fergus
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