[ILUG-BOM] Open SUSE 10.2 Disks Required

[Vihan Pandey]

>         No, OpenSUSE has caused no harm. And its a community project.


OpenSuse has not, but Novell has :

<quote>
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terms.

While the license terms for a component may authorize You to
distribute the component, You may not use any Novell marks (e.g., SUSE
and openSUSE) in distributing the component, whether or not the
component contains Novell marks.
</quote>

Also,

<quote>

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be subject, under such license terms.

Novell reserves all rights not expressly granted to You. You may not:
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</quote>

The last paragraph is especially disgusting.

         Heh, yum is no way close to apt in first place.


i was simply giving the Suse user two of the most promising tools he/she
could use :-)

           Btw, I am Kubuntu user ( maybe a bit unhappy Kubuntu user
> at times, thanks to *optimisations* by them,


like which ones?

I wonder why I don't
> build the whole thing from svn, since as it is I am building a large
> part of it daily.


Very true, you and your Krew :-)

That sounds pretty neat, you name some KDE package / channel / list after it
- Krew :-)

Just say you heard it here 1st(unless someone has already done it).

Time to change soon maybe ) .


'Tis your freedom to decide so :-)

Thanks JTD for posting the link :

http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/eula.html

Regards,

- vihan