I think we should all do our part by buying the boxed
version. However, having bought the boxed 7.1 release
a few weeks before the 7.2 came out, I just cannot
justify buying 4-5 boxes every year. I would hope
Suse (and others) would at least allow some number
of free upgrades (complete ones) before you were
encouraged to buy another box.
Babu
--- James Ogley
Lenz answered this a couple of months back. If my understanding of what he said was correct, redistribution from a public FTP site is not allowed because there are a number of 'pay' packages whose license forbids it. If someone can be bothered to remove the offending packages and recreate the ISOs then it should be OK.
The distro team have always put together an FTP release after the boxed release which is basically the Pro version without the non-free stuff, this is installable by FTP (or you can download it and use a local FTP server of course)
Except, of course, that our favoured Linux distributor will loose income and maybe go out of business...
Indeed, support SuSE, buy the box!
This allows SuSE to invest in employing hackers full time, which improves software quality, not just for SuSE, but Linux and other free software as a whole
Of course you don't have to, that's the spirit of Linux, we all share and get along, it doesn't go against the spirit of GNU/Linux to share software via the web/FTP -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 7.x) This email was created and sent with Ximian Evolution 0.15
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