SOTL schrieb:
> Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 07 August 2006 15:52, Per Jessen wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Would you care to elaborate?  Whether or not an enterprise uses SLED or
>>> openSUSE is only a matter of IT policy, not features nor anything else.
>>>   
> The above would be nice if it were true but it is not true.
> 
> OpenSuSE does not contain any non open source programs ie ones that may
> not be used without paying royalties.
> 
> SLED is a commercial program which does contain non open source programs
> ie ones in which one must pay royalties to use.
> 
> If you do not need the non open source programs then of course they are
> then equivalent but if of course you need such programs to make your
> system work then they are not equivalent.
> 
> Last I heard most win modem programs are non open source.
> 
> That would seem to imply that if one wanted a laptop to use its internal
> to connect to the internet and that one was not a geek then would need
> to purchase SuSE.
> 
> Apparently it is very difficult for people to understand that there are
> two ways of making an operating system work - become a geek or pay a
> geek to do the work.
> 
> If one has different interest say is a medical doctor et then one feel
> of expertise is not being a geek meaning that it is preferable to pay
> someone else to be the geek.
> 
> Realize OpenSuSE is a geek thing.
> 
> SLED is a non geek thing. That is the program that geeks sell to non
> geeks who have no desires to be a geek so that the geeks can buy non
> geek things like food and bear.
> 
> Very simple stuff. No sale of non geek programs to non geeks then the
> geeks do not get to eat or drink bear.
> 
> 

can U ( or someone on the list ) translate that into a small term to the
point what you wnated to say with it ? I can't get the point of view.

thanks,
JBScout aka Thomy

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