Submitted by Pets (not verified) on Fri, 2008/02/22 - 21:54.
The only issue not mentioned in comments is the Novell mentality and purpose.
Novell is attempting to use Suse GNU/Linux as base for as much proprietary technology as possible, just short of the legal boundary against infringing the relevant licenses.
The question was never a technical issue, and therefore gratis SLES is unlikely to ever gain a worthwhile foothold, since many who would form a "community" around OpenSLES would very quickly hit big firewalls from Novell in making progress, thus become discouraged and eventually migrate back to other "enterprise" oriented gratis distributions.
The only issue not mentioned
The only issue not mentioned in comments is the Novell mentality and purpose.
Novell is attempting to use Suse GNU/Linux as base for as much proprietary technology as possible, just short of the legal boundary against infringing the relevant licenses.
The question was never a technical issue, and therefore gratis SLES is unlikely to ever gain a worthwhile foothold, since many who would form a "community" around OpenSLES would very quickly hit big firewalls from Novell in making progress, thus become discouraged and eventually migrate back to other "enterprise" oriented gratis distributions.