Andrew Wafaa wrote: > If you have installed the media on two separate machines, but have > only purchased one license you will only receive the benefits on the > machine that is registered with Novell - this is very similar to Red > Hat Enterprise.
What I'm really asking is about the legal position: would a user be "allowed" to install on two PCs but only get updates on the one they paid for (because they're paying, in effect, for the updates), or would the installation be breaking the terms of the licences (due to the inclusion of proprietary software on the CD install)? > I believe with regards to Microsoft you have to pay for support unless > you buy a big buck contract, which even then doesn't provide support > for all MS apps - Novell will support ALL applications that come with > SLED 10. Well there's support, and there's support.... What I was really getting at is that a licensed MS OS would still get updates for a period of several years, not just 12 months. So a 12-month subscription to an updates service is a little different. Don't get me wrong: I think charging (say) $50/yr for updates, including effectively updates to the next and future major versions, is a good deal. (Not so sure about £50, not because of the price, just because £50 <> $50 and that $1=£1 exchange rate annoys me.) What I like about SLED is how "finished" it looks in comparison with something like OpenSuSE. When Ubuntu/Mepis ships with XGL built in I'd probably drift back in that direction myself, but as a potential OS to provide to customers SLED looks much better than Ubuntu/Mepis do right now. It just feels completely different. [Is anyone else interested in this stuff? I'm not sure there's much left to this thread but it can go off-list if nobody else wants to read it.] -- Mark Rogers More Solutions Ltd :: 0845 45 89 555 _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
