Hello SuSE folkz, I'm still reading through published materials on recently announced M$ and Novell "cooperation". Siting with the devil M$ historically has had a short time gain and disastrous consequences in a long run. I have this moral and business dilemma over this issue: Part of my money will essentially go to M$ every time I buy boxed version of SuSE. I purchase and include full boxed SuSE distributions every time I dispatch my hardware / software solutions to my customers. So, now I will essentially pay a "ransom" to M$ for their "promise" not to sue me, if I'm using SuSE for non-commercial purposes. And I'm still open to potential M$ mitigations when I develop my commercial applications and services using SuSE or other distributions as a core platform. Switching to other, not tainted by M$, distributions means that I have to migrate and re-train all my customers without any monetary compensations for me. The major dilemma is to funnel money to M$ for each purchased box of SuSE or suffer financial loses in migrating and retraining my clientele to another distribution. Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome, Alex