M Harris wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 15:49, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
So, please enlighten me in case I have made any error here: Ok..
At this point in time M$ has not one word to say ... and that I believe is the entire point of your entire previous post... and you're missing the issue.
The issue is the *future* of Novell-Mickey-Office-Linux... and the impact the *cross licensing* in the *future* will have upon Suse, the Linux community, and the open source movement in general.
If Novell teams up with M$ then Suse in the *future* will no longer have the trust of the open community. Do you honestly believe that Suse will honor the GPL with M$ in their pocket? Well, if I were you (cause it won't be me) when you load Suse 10.2 I would recommend that you read the license agreement *very* carefully... cause I'm willing to bet that it changes dramatically... and I am also willing to bet that M$ lawyers are going to help write it. Bye bye Suse.
I "complained" about this in 10.1 but it is now worse in 10.2- but what is it? Well, when you are installing 10.1, you get to the point where the test for connection to the Internet occurs which is then followed by the "Registration" procedure, ie where the OS goes away and gets the Update Source. There are 3 buttons in the little window which comes up and the first 2 are automatically selected for you with the last one, the one about providing your registration code, is not selected and not required; the other 2, the first is Hardware details, and the second Optional Details although selected can be unselected when you are installing 10.1 and the process of connecting to the server and getting the Update Source organised proceeds with no problems. Try deselecting the first button--the Hardware details--at this point of your installation of SUSE 10.2. You are not allowed to deselect it. It is mandatory to have this button selected and therefore to provide details of your system to Novell. If this button is not selected the installation will not proceed past this point. You are stuck, for ever unable to obtain the Update Source for the system because Novell, like M$, now wants to know all the details of your compute. If you by-pass this "registration" process here and complete the install but then try and use Yast to complete this "registration" process you are given the 2-fingered salute unless you provide Novell with the all the details of your computer.
On the other hand... Ubuntu is safe... for the moment. I thought I could trust Novell. I was apparently quite mistaken about that... otherwise, I think I know what I'm talking about here.
I discovered yesterday that ubuntu/kubuntu is rubbish: it cannot handle my 6-month old nVidia card (a 6600) and gives me crap on the screen so that I cannot complete its installation. The Live disk is even worse because it comes up with the garbage on the screen as soon as it boots. Cheers. -- "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush 27 August 2004