Hello Matthias

That is exactly the point, Novell IS a large American company. If it
wanted to, it would find a way to come to an agreement with nVidia, just
as Microsoft has done ;-)

Simon

Matthias Hopf schrieb:
> On May 05, 07 09:45:00 +0200, Simon Lewis wrote:
>   
>> Why can Ubuntu include the NVIDIA drivers in there repository and
>> openSUSE can't...???
>>     
>
> Actually, Ubuntu *cannot* include them as well.
> They just don't give a damn and just do it.
>
>   
>> Above all, Ubuntu has very conservative policy regarding product
>> infringements.
>>     
>
> Dream on.
> Novell is a large American company, thus it has to be much more careful
> than Canonical. Which isn't American in the first place.
>
>
> This has been discussed to death. It is *impossible* for us to ship
> binary only drivers for NVIDIA and ATI in their current state, not for
> technical reasons, but for legal reasons. Full stop.
>
> Stop complaining here, this will lead to nothing.
>
> Matthias
>
>   

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