Re: [Sheflug] Suse Linux

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 23 October 2001 10:58 pm, you wrote:
> Isn't there any way I can just pay
> for the media like at Linux Emporium with all the other distros? Why do
> they make you pay?

How are they supposed to make money if you don't pay for it?

Free software is not always free software, but in the case of SuSE I don't 
think it's even Free - the licence for YaST is fairly restrictive, IIRC. 

If you want a cheap OS that you can continually upgrade, get Debian or 
Mandrake. If you want the latest and greatest SuSE on your machine, then you 
need to pay for the boxed set. That's how it is. Given that it's one tenth 
the price of a Windows set, and that we have a choice of distributions (& 
hence competition), I don't think you can complain :)

Cheers,
					Alex.
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