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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsThe Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptopsPosted Jun 3, 2008 20:03 UTC (Tue) by msmeissn (subscriber, #13641)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops
The openSUSE beta EULA is mostly due to magazines in germany selling with ultra large letters "OPENSUSE 11 ON DVD!!!!!" (and in very small print) "alpha version". Ciao, Marcus
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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops Posted Jun 3, 2008 20:42 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] Underemphasized was that it is the EULA for the BETA.
The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:52 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] Surely the magazines are quite within their rights to distribute copies of any version of OpenSuSE, including alpha releases? It is meant to be free software, no? All the OpenSuSE guys need do is make sure their installer displays a message that this is an alpha release. If they want to send their lawyers on the attack, registering and enforcing a trademark for OpenSuSE would be a far less boneheaded way to do it.
opensuse eula Posted Jun 4, 2008 16:15 UTC (Wed) by nettings (subscriber, #429) [Link] true, but then mindshare and release craze is the only palpable currency in a world where distributions are free for the taking. i can understand the suse crowd is less than enthused about people ripping them off by pushing pre-release stuff to the masses to improve their sales, and taking momentum out of the legitimate release at the same time. it should be noted that the final release eula is a lot more in keeping with established standards of the open source community. i agree there should be a less obnoxious way of discouraging freeloaders - maybe the suse community should review their pre-release eula. but compared to a windows pre-release one, it's still amazingly friendly :-D
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