2005/10/11, meister@netz00.com
Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 15:40 schrieb Marcel Mourguiart:
2005/10/11, Jonas Helgi Palsson
: 2) you do not bundle or combine the Software with another offering (e.g., software, hardware, or service).
That's a real problem for me, I'm directing a project to install free of cost suse linux in a lot o hardware stores, that in an effort to compete with a MS bundle denominated "Mi primer PC" which have Windows Starter Edition and encarta for a low cost.
You are saying that i can't install suse on those machines because is a bundle ??? even if we are installing this free of cost ??
Hi Marcel,
and you are not allowed to do some marketing with it: ...this great product comes with SUSE LINUX... because you are not allowed to use the term "SUSE LINUX" without permisssion from Novell. The company I former worked for had to change the marketing, eliminating the term "Suse Linux" everywhere. After that they start thinking about another distro to bundle with, but no decision until now (as far as I know). In the "good old days" SuSE was a great distro for the german market. Our product was dedicated only for the german market, so we choose SuSE. And after spreading qt and kde the desktop for the customers became usable (before, if I presented fvwm to the customers, I felt awful about it). But then Novell bought SuSE...
Yea, i'm using SUSE because i'm a suser but certainly not a noveller. Any way is a little late to change the base distro right know, the fact that suse wasn't a free distribution not even cross my mine until know. What about if SUSE is given for free ( like in beer ), i mean every store will have all the oferts with to choices: 1. with SUSE, Wikipedia ( in a cd ) and a internet educational course. 2. with out SUSE, etc That for exact same prizes, so thats way we are given SUSE like a gift for no money back and in fact that's true. Can i do that ?? What SUSE people think about it ?? -- Marcel Mourguiart