On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:57:27PM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > I'm not sure it's "what people want", but it surely is what people remember ;)
Nothing remembers as well as a website: http://www.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_&_SUSE_Linux_confusion > > So indeed we could stop discussing and let Novell or SUSE people tell what > > the decission is and why. > > Don't forget that may involve issues such as copyright, trademark, etc... > > SUSE Linux is a registered trademark of Novell. > I don't know what exactly "openSUSE" is. I undertsand that SUSE and most likeley openSUSE are names owned by Novell. Therefore Novell can say wether they like to name the distro "SUSE OSS" or "openSUSE". If there are legal reason they can not change it, that would be a decision as well. As they own th rights to both, it should not be a legal problem to do so. <snip> > Actually, if one of both should be dropped, I'd be in favor of dropping the > eval DVD. My preference as well. > Or did you mean an ISO on the internet like the eval but that only contains > the non-Free stuff ? This part. A CD with stuff that is now only available via FTP. > > Remember that because of the license of the software that would be on that > CD, you're not allowed to > pull it from the internet, burn and distribute it. IANAL but AFAIK you may > only use that for > yourself, because you don't have a redistribution contract with Real, Adobe, > etc... > I might be wrong though ;) No idea here. Hope Novell can enlighten us here. If you look add this as an ISO (perhaps not possible, but bear with me for a moment) one could download all 6 CD's, just CD 1 for basic install 1-3 for standard install. 1-3+6 for standard install pluss Java and stuff, 1-6 for full install. > No, no way, we *must* keep a 100% OSS version. > The typical Windows convert might not care about licenses (he probably > wouldn't have ever used > Windows if he did) but many people do care about it. Seriously, how many people run their system without Java, because of the licensing? Just curious. As I stated I rather have a full boxed dual layer version and a OSS version. houghi -- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
