Am Sonntag, 13. August 2006 23:50 schrieb BandiPat:
On Sunday 13 August 2006 16:57, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
You miss the whole point! Logically, there should be as much mention of source files as of anything else. Logically, according to the GPL, source files are equally if not more important than binaries. If any logic had been used, sources wouldn't be so difficult to find from the box or from the sites.
I don't get your point, I just picked up the box the CD's and DVD came in, took less than a couple of seconds to spot the URL for the sources printed on the box. Likewise, just gone to the Download page, under the list of ISO and Torrents for downloading is the word "Sources"... I mean, what is there so obfuscated or hard to locate? Short of the web page automatically redirecting you to the Sources ftp server when you open the page, and having to click the "Stop" button on your web browser to stay on the page and download the binaries, I can't see how it could be made any easier...
A lot of changes with Novell's purchase, some have me worried.
Heh i love that. Blame it on Novell. Those evil bastards hid the libgimpprint source. I bet Ron Hovsepian personally thought of that evil trick to let libgimpprint come out of ghostscript-library!
Henne
========== Loving it is not going to fix it. If you continue to wax over the little points, pretty soon a lot of big ones will show up as well. Will you still be loving it then or one of the users yelling the loudest? Novell needs to realize they are dealing with open source software now. Maybe they'll eventually get it right, maybe they won't, but one thing sure, they do need to fix some things.
You seem to be making a mountain out of a grain of sand here. I mean, still being within the guidelines of the GPL, Novell could be charging you for access to the sources, instead of that, they are putting the URL on the outside of the packaging and having the links on the pages where they offer links to the binaries as well... -- David Wright Wright Information Services Europa "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org