No need. Perhaps I was too hasty to dismiss your questions - Each of the points you reference above can be easily grasped with just a bit of thought, but I hesitate to put a lot of work into explaining all these points if you're really determined not to understand.
The bottom line is that you apparently see no danger to linux, but I do - as for the details, they will have to await another post, when I have some time to laboriously explain each of the common terms used above.
Joe
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 20:55 -0800, J Sloan wrote: please don't trouble yourself...we have better things to do. -- Tom in NM SuSE 9.3/Evolution 10:36pm up 14 days 9:18, 3 users, load average: 4.16, 4.10, 4.03 ==== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org