Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2634 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 01:03 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote:
> > John Andersen wrote:
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > > The down side of that is SLED with a $50/year price tag will quickly
> > > outpace the cost of XP.
> >
> > Well, if Novell ain't that stupid, then they will offer a competitive
> > fixed price for all 5 years, at least for non business consumers.
> 
> Well I would hope so.  After all, we here in opensuse land wring
> the bugs out of that codebase for them.  Then they turn around and
> shrink wrap it with the same support options you get on the web 
> for free.

  I was under the (mis)impression that SLED10 patches were only good for
the time that you are paying support.

> I do see that they appear to be planning to license multimedia for SLED:
> Quote:
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop supports the following audio file formats 
> (pending licenses):
> MPEG
> Apple Audio Codec (aac)
> Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
> RealAudio (ram)

  Well I'd be tempted to buy a copy for that, and it's polish, but I'm
not sure about patches.  :/

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