Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning

[Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>]

Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
> I guess you have to pay for SuSe CDs now huh?  They're not even
> available on their FTPs, only a README file
> (ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/README.iso-images.english)
> explaining how they "need your money" and to just make do with FTP if
> you don't want to buy the CDs.  Seems to me like SuSe is definitely next
> in line behind RedHat to go commercial.  I've no problem paying to
> support a company like SuSe, but when they come to expect to get paid by
> even home users for redistributing someone else's hard work it's truly
> sad.  

The other amazing thing about the ungratefulness of this community is 
that SuSE is held to a different standard than OpenBSD, which also 
doesn't provide ISO images for free.  Not only does nobody have a major 
problem with that, but if you exercise your right to provide them 
yourself, you get flamed.

You can't have it both ways, folks.  Either it's wrong when Theo does 
it, or it's right when SuSE does it.

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