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Kalyke:
Truthfully, I'm not sure what laws would be differant or any other specifics, I just know what my teacher mentioned. that since it wasn't from the US it didn't have to apply to US copyright laws, it makes sense that it would have to apply to German copyright laws but they are different.
torg:
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--- Quote from: Kalyke ---Suse is also nice because since its from Germany it doesn't have to apply to the copyright laws in the US, just something my teacher mentioned.
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Suse is run by Novell, isn't Novell an American company? :S
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Yep, Novell bought it in 2003. But SuSE as a (daughter) company is still located in Germany.
nihilist:
I'm not quite sure what copyright laws and a Linux distribution have to do with each other. Crypto laws, that'd make a bit more sense. There'd be no problem including strong encryption, because it wouldn't be based out of the US.
Which is part of the reason why OpenBSD is Canadian. :)
And don't get me wrong, I love OpenBSD, just that for a desktop box, I'd go with Linux over a BSD. Especially if I ever planned on playing a game. :)
Samari: the Gentoo install instructions are pretty straight forward. First time I installed, it came out fine. And it was nice of them to include alternatives, so that you have choices as you do the install.
torg:
--- Quote from: nihilist ---Crypto laws .... There'd be no problem including strong encryption, because it wouldn't be based out of the US...
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yep, that makes more sense.
nihilist:
--- Quote from: torg ---yep, that makes more sense.
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Why, it's almost like I know what I'm talking about!
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