On Monday 04 December 2006 17:48, Harsh Busa wrote:
On 12/4/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:01, Arun K. Khan wrote:
FWIW, openSUSE 10.2 RC5 is goldmastered to be released 7/Dec/06. I have installed RC1 on AMD64, Intel Dual Core, Intel Mobile. Overall it looks good - OpenOffice 2.0.4, KDE 3.5.5, GNOME 2.16.
Avoid Novell-suse lik the plague. 5 Yrs on u are likely to be bitten very badly. Pending full disclosure (which is proly never going to happen) of the Novell M$ hookup there are too many if's and buts about what Novell will do. If they have any piece of code inside that iso is in violation of M$ patents (.net for one) U (not Novell) can get sued by M$.
expected from you.
Why?
does this not apply to other distributions ?
The Act of signing such an agreement is like a tacit acknowledgement of Suse having code which is in violation. But more important, the other distros did not sign a deal with M$ absolving themselves and making u liable. The other distro will be liable first. U will ofcourse get bitten with a cease and desist notice in the case of other (violating) distros. Which is why i stick to debian. Using suse without (or even with) reading carefully the terms of distribution would be termed willful violation whenever M$ chooses to sue Novell's non paying customers. But Novell is generous to a fault u know - U have a waiver of 180 days for any freebeer downloads. After which u can reinstall from a new dowload for a further 180 days ad nauseum.