[plug] Suse Enterprise Desktop/Server

[Daniel Pearson]

Further to that, if you're asking in terms of the article that /. linked 
to - its not due out for another few months yet anyway I believe?

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Bernd Felsche wrote:
> "Chris Watt" <something.rotten at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I'm quite seriously looking into SUSE at teh moment and was wondering
>> if anyone had any experience with their licensing scheme.  They list
>> at $50 per machine, so I assume it is an MS style thing where you need
>> a key for each installation?  Also what is teh redistribution of it
>> like?  If I want to give it to someone do they then have to buy a key
>> for it?
>>     
>
> The premium SUSE product is licenced to an end-user.
>
> AFAICT, the licence doesn't permit "splitting" an existing licence
> to a third party. There is a separate update service that comes with
> the Enterprise SUSE products.
>
> The normal SUSE Linux product is "freely" licenced. Only one person
> can register a copy and then have initial support. There's nothing
> to stop you [from my reading of the licence] from installing on a
> third party's computer or somebody borrowing your media to do so
> themselves. They get no support from SuSE beyond the publically
> available patches.
>
> OpenSUSE can be copies freely but provides "no support". It's
> downloadable and has the same patches as the normal boxed version.
> [non-Enterprise]
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