Re: Downloading Suse 9.0

From: Henriette Kress (spamtrap.hetta_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:01:35 +0200

Steve wrote:

> Matthew Smith <indigojo_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>> If you are talking about downloading ISO images of their operating
>> system, they don't let you do this. You have to do either an FTP
>> install, or buy the discs.
>
> You can get copies of Suse 9.0 on ebay for about $10. I don't know if
> they are legal or not.

For $10 they're certainly not legal. And if you buy them there that means
that the developers at SuSE don't get any money at all ... which in turn
means that SuSE has less money to put into making their distro better.

Feh. Warez Dudes.

fup set.

Henriette 

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