-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-12-26 at 11:38 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 16:05 +0000, John K Masters wrote:
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:00:14 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Perhaps some of us ought to sit down and write this stuff up for the openSuSE wiki, then people can be pointed to the site which will show them where to get faster and proven answers to the more common questions.
I'm afraid it can't go there. Even explanations on how to bypass those "limitations" can not go to the site where Novell is responsible and could be sued. At least, so I understood.
Please note that I'm not complaining about Carlos' reply to me. He's raised a valid concern and I'm trying to think of alternatives, including a non-official site, user sponsored.
The alternative exists: http://opensuse-community.org
I didn't intend my remark as a rebuke or anything of the sort; I just tried to mention an unfortunate (for us) fact, that Novell can not include in their site (I suppose they are legally responsible somewhat for what appears in the opensuse site) not only software bypassing licenses and patents (even if questionable) of others, in order to enjoy a "full multimedia experience", but even they can not include links nor explanations on how to get that needed software.
Part of it is already documented on http://opensuse-community.org
We may be angry or mad or distressed or whatever, but Novell can't do otherwise: they could be sued. Even a threat to be sued can be damaging for them, they are a USA company. That's my understanding; how do you say? Ah, IANAL.
So, that information has to go elsewhere. You mention another non official site: that could be a possibility.
That non-official site is here: http://opensuse-community.org
Did I just mention it often enough that people finally have a look at it
? ;)
cheers
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