On Sunday 14 May 2006 15:19, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 14 May 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Sunday 2006-05-14 at 01:35 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > >> Of course there will not be an additional sources DVD within the > >> box. It would be wasted material and manpower for 99% of the > >> buyers. > >> > >> You HAVE GOT the sources in sense of the GPL, don't you? > > > > Quite a number of the people that buy the set do so because they > > don't have the network to download it. That has been my reason for > > many years. > > The 10.0 box did not contain a sources CD or DVD. > > Cheers -e =========
We were all aware of that Eberhard, since we all complained about that situation also. Many of us had hoped that would change after they got the bugs worked out of resale boxes. There are many that still desire a sources DVD to be included, but maybe SuSE didn't hear our cries. It sounds as if they may not have heard the pleas for a decent manual (Admin as before Novell) either. Also for 10.0, a sources DVD iso was provided on the mirrors, which for those of us with broadband didn't complain. Many don't have the bandwidth to download a large iso. According to the GPL you want to mention, they, Novell/SuSE, have to make the sources available. I would hope it would come in the package we buy and if not, made available either by downloading or to purchase for the cost of the media directly from Novell/SUSE! This is not just the sources for the OpenSuse stuff, as you pointed out earlier, that's not everything that is on the purchased DVD. Not asking for the impossible, just a bit of cooperation from Novell in getting our monies worth from the package we purchase. regards, Lee --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
