Hi, I am interested in a suse 9.0 AMD64 download too. At the moment I am testing with the 8.2 Beta9, which is working with my Athlon64 fine. I found the Beta9 download on some mirrors of SUSE, but not on the Suse-FTP-Server.
I would object to the binaries - but I'm not sure what the legal side is on this one. The sources are nessecary too and i think the legal side says, that you must offer the sources together with the binaries.
The DVD is double sided (one side binaries, one side sources), there shouldn't be any problems for making available just the sources... Do you have problems to offer the binaries together with the sources ?
If you offer the Software as ISO-CD-Images, everyone can decide itself, which images to load. The Beta9-Download is offered with 9 CD-ISO-Images, i have loaded the first 4 Images with Binaries and could test. Some day later i loaded the rest to get the complete Version with sources. This was a good way. Frank-Michael Froede ab@u1.com writes:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
The package seems to be available for retail now, but it is still not on the FTP site. Is it going to be made available?
We have done this so far for x86 but have not decided for AMD64 yet.
Please do consider it, I think it would make things more convenient for your customers.
We do consider it...
I, for one, like to "try before I buy" :-)
I was under the impression of "try instead of buy" ;-).
However, I don't see the x86 version of suse 9 at the FTP site either. Are you sure it is there?
It's not there yet - we put it out some weeks after the box is in the shops...
Doesn't the linux license require the product to be made available for free if desired?
No, not at all. The 9.0 DVD comes with sources and therefore everybody ...
So, with putting the sources on the same medium as the binaries, we fullfill the requirements.
So then I assume you would have no objection to someone making a copy of their DVD available for download, right?
I would object to the binaries - but I'm not sure what the legal side is on this one. The DVD is double sided (one side binaries, one side sources), there shouldn't be any problems for making available just the sources... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126