[OGo-Documentation] revised SuSE 9.1 Install Howto

[Helge Hess]

[I guess this belongs more on the discussion group]

On Sep 30, 2004, at 5:20, Chris H wrote:
> In fact the first thing I do  when some one  lends me their CD set

Last time I heard "lending" of proprietary software is forbidden ;-)

In fact 99% of the SuSE CD content are indeed free or OpenSource 
software and obviously always was. Now the interesting thing is that 
YaST, the installer, was proprietary software and was required to be 
bought on a per host basis (not 100% on that one, could have been per 
user as well). Obviously you can't install a SuSE without YaST, so this 
ensured SuSE a license fee per copy (and also resulted in the ISO image 
not being allowed to get copied).

Fortunately this is all gone now with SuSE 9.1 and the GPL YaST, and 
the move to a service model :-)

Maybe I'm completely wrong (but I don't think so).

Greets,
   Helge
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