On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Hubert Mantel wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 10, Ted Harding wrote:

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On 10-Dec-98 Hubert Mantel wrote:

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The only solution would be to have two international versions: One for the USA and one for the free world. Maybe we will do so in the future.

I hope so. At present, non-German-speaking users are in effect required to be US users in practice. The unfortunate accident of being an Anglophone resident outside the USA should not lead to even more deprivation than necessary; not forgetting the many users of minority native languages (French, Italian, Latin-American ... ) for whom an English SuSE may be easier to get along with than a German one.

I know that. And I really don't like this situation.

But maintaining a third release adds lots of work to us. There are much more important tasks to do (eg the AXP port) than paying for some stupid US laws.

And by the way: People who need cryptography have internet access. The packages are not that huge, and they are provided for download from a free server in the free world (ftp.suse.de) ;-)

One thing you could do is: Have 2 versions like today, but produce to the US market alone in the USA. Produce for the free world in Germany (both the German and international versions) The international and US versions don't even have to be different. You just have to make the non-us version in Europe. Just my 2 pfennig (or øre, centimes or whatever) Ole - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>