On Monday 04 December 2006 17:48, Harsh Busa wrote: > On 12/4/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:01, Arun K. Khan wrote: > > > FWIW, openSUSE 10.2 RC5 is goldmastered to be released > > > 7/Dec/06. I have installed RC1 on AMD64, Intel Dual Core, > > > Intel Mobile. Overall it looks good - OpenOffice 2.0.4, KDE > > > 3.5.5, GNOME 2.16. > > > > Avoid Novell-suse lik the plague. 5 Yrs on u are likely to be > > bitten very badly. Pending full disclosure (which is proly never > > going to happen) of the Novell M$ hookup there are too many if's > > and buts about what Novell will do. If they have any piece of > > code inside that iso is in violation of M$ patents (.net for one) > > U (not Novell) can get sued by M$. > > expected from you.
Why? > does this not apply to other distributions ? The Act of signing such an agreement is like a tacit acknowledgement of Suse having code which is in violation. But more important, the other distros did not sign a deal with M$ absolving themselves and making u liable. The other distro will be liable first. U will ofcourse get bitten with a cease and desist notice in the case of other (violating) distros. Which is why i stick to debian. Using suse without (or even with) reading carefully the terms of distribution would be termed willful violation whenever M$ chooses to sue Novell's non paying customers. But Novell is generous to a fault u know - U have a waiver of 180 days for any freebeer downloads. After which u can reinstall from a new dowload for a further 180 days ad nauseum. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
