AFAIK & AFAICR SuSE have neve put their ISOs on ftp servers. They have in the past put the LIVE Eval! version of their distro on "free" CDs & DVDs on the covers of computer mags.
But, hey, I stand to be corrected. :-)
Paul Hornshaw
-----Original Message----- From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 06:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Yast going GPL
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
So there is nothing to stop us using it for an installfest?
There has never been anything which disallowed you to use suse at an installfest (other than perhaps the content of your head ;) ).
Anyone is free to copy until their burners go up in smoke. Dito for putting it on servers for download. Has never been any
different, and
I've said that several times before on this list too.
If people are free to put it on mirrors why does no one stick up the ISO's? I've never seen a mirror with SUSE ISO's?
Chad
If suse isn't on the uni ftp server, than that has
absolutely nothing
to do with suse.
What I mean is, are we allowed to burn off 30 copies sell them for $5/disk (to cover costs) and install them on all comers PCs?
That depends. It "requires written permission". As noone
here ever had
the idea to ask, we don't know. I have heard they're quite
friendly to
user groups and have even supplied free boxes(!) in the past (though they may have been one version back and I doubt they'll
ship to NZ). In
practice, I am also dead certain that they couldn't give a
damn about
anything non-commercial, i.e. user groups charging five bucks. One would hope they have better things to do (and I haven't
heard of a case
where suse actually got into some action, no doubt /.&Co would have been frothing if that had happened). Plus, there are many
ways around
that - sell blanks, then copy. You'll need the updates
anyway - ok, the
update CD is five bucks, the distro CD is free (and it's 3-7 CDs anyway, or 1-2 DVDs). Use your imagination but stop
whinging (and it's
a non-issue soon anyway).
Personally I supply copies of any suse version (and I won't
be out of
pocket). (And it's an excellent distro, but that's a
different topic,
and the 64bit version is dirt cheap.)
There may be problems with other SuSE developed software.
FUD + BS. There are many good pieces of GPL software by @suse.com authors on the distro, and if other distros didn't pick
them up because
of stubborn political blindness then that's for their bad.
Is anyone able to please consider running a Suse demo for
a CLUG meeting?
Yep, no problem (other than perhaps the date).
Volker
Hey! Whaddya know! Here is anton putting in a word for Suse. Actually I should have done a little more investigation before asking silly questions... All this would have been solved with a little google. Go to the suse site and it has a list of ftp sites. Complete, also with live-eval if you want it. I didn't see isos, but you can always make'em.
Cheers
Anton
ps version 9.0 even, shucks they are just like everyone else! Go Suse (europhile here...)
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