On Fri, 2 Oct 2003 20:32 , Bill Anderson <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:05, Buck wrote: > > According to the SuSE rep, the Professional, Pro Upgrade and Personal > > CD-ROMs may be copied and distributed as long as there is no profit > > involved. That was this afternoon while I have been addressing these > > questions. > > Which would be no different than RH's requirements. You can *give* away > the discs all you want on the comparable installments of RH. When we are > talking about Enterprise stuff, however, well see my other post for teh > details. > > Thus, when comparing RHEL to SuSE personal something is more than fishy. > Of course, since we want as close as possible, to compare to > Person/Professional we need to compare those to Fedora. > > A. Can you give it away/freely redistributable? > B. Can you sell it? > > Fedora: > A: Yes > B. Yes > > SuSE: > A: Yes[1] > B: No > > > > Also note that personal does not come with Apache, LDAP client/server, > NIS/NFS Server, "Development tools". Their guide also list sit as only > having "Basic " "security software". > As somebody who once thought of moving (only my home stuff), I'm pretty sure the former "personal" versions had all these things (I've not looked at the CDs for a good while), so it _appears_ that SUSE has "changed" as well... Alan Thew
