SUSE wins. People will download what Mike posted, They will begin using it. They will become dependent on it. They will want a support contract. So who will they get to support it. Not Mike because his license says don't make money by redistributing the SUSE software. So SUSE gains additional paying customers. The ones who downloaded a free copy of SUSE and now want support for it. It doesn't cost SUSE anything. Mike is paying the costs for making it available. SUSE is also not responsible if anything goes wrong. They didn't make it available - Mike did. :)
Sounds like Mike is doing SUSE a favor by making SLES 8 available.
Rich Smrcina wrote:
Then SuSE doesn't get compensated for their hard work, they stop making money and stop making a distribution. Who wins?
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 10:11 am, you wrote:
(This argument has been around before; I've checked the licenses, Suse don't make it available for free download, but there's nothing to stop anyone else redistributing it so long as they don't take money).
Mike
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