On Friday 20 June 2008, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > Please note that when you install and use OpenSUSE you are giving up > certain user "rights" that GNU/Linux grants you under the GPL: > > Here are just some of the fun sections of the EULA: > > Novell reserves all rights not expressly granted to You.
Thanks for the warning, Joe. I read it all, but I could have stopped reading right there. So much for "Open"SuSE. In terms of IBM besides SuSE my understanding is that there's some officially sanctioned version of Red Hat available; a friend that uses it in a VM (on top of Debian) in order to keep Lotus Notes from gobbling up all of his RAM. ;-) So at least there are options other than Novell's current EULA. Red Hat thankfully hasn't gone down that route -- I definitely give them credit for not getting sucked into something similar. I was downloading "Open"SuSE 11 with the intention of burning it to a DVD-RW and overwriting it later -- that "later" just got a whole lot sooner. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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