----- Mensaje original ---- De: James Tremblay <jamesat@comcast.net> Para: opensuse-project@opensuse.org Enviado: miércoles, 2 de mayo, 2007 14:00:02 Asunto: Re: [opensuse-project] Slogan proposal: openSUSE - Not for my mom, but for tech enthusiasts

I think it is a misinterpretation of what the cost of SLED is to call it licensing. I think it has been and be should be marketed as long term support. If you purchase a "subscription" to SLED you get a year of patches\updates and online support for the worlds most stable, innovative, enterprise ready desktop, all of 50 $ US. Still sounds like the best OS deal going to me, even though my personal HD is loaded with 10.2. ;)

If you have to purchase a "subscription" for every SLED you have, that is very similar to a license. If you have 50 installations, you will be paying for the same updates 50 times, when you already have the source code. Moreover, the community is not getting those updates, at least not directly. So again, there are two distributions and the Gnome guys may have to work double: work for SLED, and for OpenSuSE. I know RedHat is doing the same, and a lot of others in the open source business, so maybe is the way to make it profitable. However, Canonical is not doing that with Ubuntu. We will see if they get successful with that model. At least, that is the vision from an outsider. greetings, jordi massaguer pla ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org