[Leaplist] more Novell/SuSe - MS links and thoughts

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:49 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 10:15 -0500, Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> > Sadly, we all know this won't exist, because someone will invariably pay
> > that money, then promptly put up a yum repo and give them away when they
> > are not supposed to.
> 
> Agreed.  In fact, I noted Novell regularly had to deal with that during
> OpenSuSE's early efforts.

It's sad that people cannot distinguished between "freedom" and "give it
to me and I won't pay for it".

Trust me, this even happens with big enterprise companies.  Most people
would not BELIEVE how out of compliance most companies are on their
support and licensing agreements, even when you make it super easy.  I
know you have probably seen this in your work.

> > I would love to see it as well.
> 
> The tools, package and repo managers, etc... need to at least address
> the redistributable/non-redistributable aspect IMHO.

I believe Fedora has done a good job of this.  At least as good a job as
possible.

BTW, regarding the 32-bit/64-bit on systems with less than 4 Gb of
memory.  I believe you are right here.  I've been wearing a hairshirt
fighting with 64-bit on my Athlon64 X2 workstation.  I'm going to
reinstall with 32-bit.

-- 
Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>
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