bart at solozone.com schrieb: > Sorry to return to this theme. I just got the 9.2 UPGRADE and it tells me I > must agree to Novell /SuSe upgrade maintenance protection terms available on > line: www.suse.de/maintenance > which gives you a 14 digit number and assume I only guess what I read thru > the legalese that you follow their point by point upgrades. I paid $49.99 > (US) instead of ($79.99). But I do have all the prior stuff 8.2, 9.0, 9.1. > So... did I shoot myself in the foot to save $25? Has Novell gone proprietary > with this type of restriction which everyone on this list tells me is has NOT > (even YAST being open source now)?
I think you only need to explicitely agree to that if you're using their support services in any way. I've never used UPGRADE products of them though, I always used STUDENT versions, which are the same as PROFESSIONAL in every way (but the price). I've never heard of such a thing anywhere though, so I don't think there's much of a problem there. They surely don't have gone proprietary in any way, at least not more than Fedora/RedHat, Mandrake or other such distros... Robert Kaiser
