On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 7:29 pm, in message <4331B49B.73C1.0096.0@novell.com>, mboman@novell.com wrote: Not a bad idea, but who's decision will it be to say that product X is better than product Y? Or would we have to supply URLs for different products doing the same thing? My vote would be to have one URL pointing to a page at openSUSE.com where people add their products of choice (Categorized off course :). That way, the "end user" can make his own choice.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 7:24 pm, in message <05092110242000.00808@albacore>, SimonD@purrsoft.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:20 am, ALFANO GIULIO wrote: I perfectly understand and agree. A watermark would be ok for me.
As policy we should not be promoting commercial products in our distro. Acroread etc are just about OK, because although they are closed source we don'''t have to pay for them.
If we get offered a DVD player that is free or OS, then we should have it in.
What about a links page for packages? So the core packages are on
I think this would be for SuSE 10.1, and SuSE team have to chose the product. Opensuse have to stay away from commercial. -----Original Message----- From: Magnus Boman [mailto:mboman@novell.com] Sent: mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 11.32 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] PowerDVD for Linux Obviously, I meant openSUSE.org :) the
CD/DVD
and other stuff on the link.
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I don't agree. This has nothing to do with "they" or "us". It's more about a WIKI page where anybody and everybody can enter their choice of preference in different categories. It's not about commercial or free either. Let the individual decide what he/she wants to go for.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 7:38 pm, in message <2C8305E0BE090E47A2BAD52A48AC911D04D8179D@exchange1.lloyd.com>, ALFANOG@lloydadriatico.it wrote: I think this would be for SuSE 10.1, and SuSE team have to chose the product. Opensuse have to stay away from commercial.
----- Original Message----- From: Magnus Boman [mailto:mboman@novell.com] Sent: mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 11.32 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] PowerDVD for Linux
Obviously, I meant openSUSE.org :)
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 7:29 pm, in message <4331B49B.73C1.0096.0@novell.com>, mboman@novell.com wrote: Not a bad idea, but who's decision will it be to say that product X is better than product Y? Or would we have to supply URLs for different products doing the same thing? My vote would be to have one URL pointing to a page at openSUSE.com where people add their products of choice (Categorized off course :). That way, the "end user" can make his own choice.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 7:24 pm, in message <05092110242000.00808@albacore>, SimonD@purrsoft.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:20 am, ALFANO GIULIO wrote: I perfectly understand and agree. A watermark would be ok for me.
As policy we should not be promoting commercial products in our distro. Acroread etc are just about OK, because although they are closed source we don'''t have to pay for them.
If we get offered a DVD player that is free or OS, then we should have it in.
What about a links page for packages? So the core packages are on the CD/DVD
and other stuff on the link.
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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:44 am, Magnus Boman wrote:
I don't agree. This has nothing to do with "they" or "us". It's more about a WIKI page where anybody and everybody can enter their choice of preference in different categories. It's not about commercial or free either. Let the individual decide what he/she wants to go for.
I agree. Sometimes only one particular commercial product actually does the business. On the other hand an open source one that I haven't heard of may do it just as well or better. Can our wiki have star ratings? Can we have these external offerings on a YOU compatible server? Saves lots of fiddling about finding the right download etc, which is why we go for distros anyway. However what about things such as MP3 which may/maynot be legal to include in certain juresdictions? Otherwise effectivly we are only getting what is legal in Utah. To be truely open we need alternate sources. -- Simon Dales, Software Consultant "The impossible is easy"
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