On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:14:05 -0600, Rich Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Then SuSE doesn't get compensated for their hard work, they stop making money and stop making a distribution. Who wins?
This is Linux. Open-source. You can't make a business plan predicated on being able to raise revenue from selling the distro - unless you can sell in volume, shrink-wrapped, in CompUSA, to a certain predicatable percentage of those who use the distro. You make money from support - Suse charge a hefty per-engine fee, do they not?
If Suse really wanted to prevent the complete distro from being redistributed, all they would have to do is change the Yast license terms from 'you can't charge for redistribution' to 'you can't redistribute'.
I find the notion of seeking to restrict the distribution of open-source software, to make it hard to get hold of a copy, faintly amusing.
Mike -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
