Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:04:00AM -0400, SOTL wrote:
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.
SLED does not have binary only kernel modules either (with 1 exception),
so no WinModem binary support in SLED 10.
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.
We would really like to make everything work out of the box but
we have to work with the current laws. Paying us does not help here.
Ciao, Marcus
Something is drastly wrong here.
Mandrake 10.1 commerical which is over 3 years old has the programs
required to make Thinkpad wind modems work and they do work..
SuSE 10.1 commerical does not have such programs and it is only 3 months
old and it does not work.
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