[ale] Re: Suse 9.1 Pro posted to tux.org, please be considerate!!

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Crawford Rainwater wrote:

> This is an interesting turn of practice.  In the past, SuSE stopped putting ISO
> images to generate the revenue from CD/DVD sales of the distro.  Now I see that
> in fact, yes, there is SuSE 9.1 discs 1 to 5 listed there.  Does anyone know the
> reasons behind the change in policy (aside Novell purchasing SuSE of course)?  I
> admit I can speculate quite a bit, just wondering if there are any facts to this
> sudden shift/change is all.

The main change is that SuSE's now finally actually open source, so people
can legally redistribute ISOs. Whether SuSE^WNovell finds they spend more
than they make by doing that (like Red Hat did) remains to be seen ;-)

later,
chris