I spent 20 minutes on the phone with a SuSE Sales man. I specifically discussed giving a friend of mine a copy of Professional so only one of us would purchase it and we would install it on our home computers and on a group of computers we would be using for practice and learning. Later we would install a copy on a production computer for a business. He said I could give him one and we could install it on all of our computers but if I sold the copy to the business or included it with a computer or other purchased product, I would have to buy a copy for the business. I was not allowed to distribute a copy with any form of financial gain or reimbursement. This was Professional. It doesn't include Open Office, etc. (at least not described on the website). Buck -----Original Message----- From: Bryan J. Smith [mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:09 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Buck Cc: dh@xxxxxxxx; 'Benjamin J. Weiss'; 'Alexandre Oliva' Subject: RE: Fedora and the System Administrator -- are my assumptions on SuSE incorrect? Quoting Buck <RHList@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > For me, SuSE is more affordable, has long term maintenance and an > option for a long term stable product compatible with the rest. For > $50 ($10 less than the Red Hat Network) I get an original disc, I can > copy and distribute it for free, and I can install it on all the > computers I desire. Whoa whoa whoa whoa ... wait a second! Now I understand my query here on a Red Hat list about SuSE might not be appropriate, but I'm going to go ahead and make it -- prompting for any corrections to my assumptions. I am currently very much under the belief that SuSE CDs (at least through 8.x) are very much _not_ redistributable! Yes, you can pull down a "redistributable" version via packages from the Internet, but I have _never_ seen a SuSE CD (or CD image) that wasn't either a "commercial shrink wrap" for a single (or finite number of) system, or an "evaluation." SuSE's distro relies on non-100% redistributable components. Now you _may_ be able to install it on a number of systems with your purchase, but that is also the case with Sun StarOffice as well -- you can_not_ simply "redistribute" it freely. Am I mistaken on SuSE??? -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no greater ignorance than the popular American environ- mental movement, which focuses on the most useless details. Be it recycling the world's most renewable resource or refusal to use proven CFC insulation on launch vehicles, no lives will be spared in the further pursuit of, ironically, harming the environment.
