I think Smitty or somebody brought this question up once before and I
don't know if it was answered. This is my understanding. If you bought
7.1 professional, you were obliged to pay full price again (? ~$80) for
the upgrade to 7.2. I believe they changed their purchase options with
7.2. I got 7.2 Professional and I believe I am entitled to get
professional upgrades at the regular 7.2 discount price (? $40) if I
supply my registration code. Whether this is a rebate or a special
download, I don't know. I think 7.1 users are out of luck, although it
is half the price of say, Red Hat.
-Robert
Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> Can one of you SuSE fans tell me if I have this right:
>
> SuSE has a "non-free" license in that I can't download ISO images of the
> full version from the 'net. If I want to run the full version of SuSE I
> have to buy it. I am breaking the license if I make a copy of someone
> else's CD set. This is because SuSE has not open-licensed their YAST
> setup tool, so you can't redistribute anything that includes YAST
> without breaking SuSE's licensing.
>
> If the above is accurate, what about upgrades? Is there any way, say, a
> 7.1 user can upgrade his/her box to 7.2 without going out and buying a
> whole new boxed set?
>
> Note that I am in no way criticising - even Linux companies gotta make
> money - but I would like to give SuSE a try and am wondering if there's
> any way to get a real, full-blown installation on my box (not one of
> those "run off the CD Live-eval" things) without going out and spending
> the money and then deciding I still like Debian better. :)
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
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