So I was crusing petition online, and came to the "SuSE should make ISO's" petition. I didn't sign it, As I don't belive there should be ISO's, there's no legal requirement, and there are alternative ways to obtain SuSE (or any other) Linux legally.

But I though just for fun I'd discect some comments, so here goes:

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82. Mauro Colorio it world be nice to try something before to buy it
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Uh, hello, Idiot. goto ftp.suse.com, and look for "live-eval". See? an ISO image you can download, burn onto CD, and run without ever installing. easy, free trail version.

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84. Matt Schlupe Once Suse publishes these files email me. Thanks
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uh, sure. since you didn't bother to include an e-mail, I'm guessing yours is imanidiot@aol.com? oh, and goto the SuSE ftp site, the files are posted there
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92. Shane Knight Please adhere to common courtesy of the Open Source and post the code and make it easily available in ISO format!
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Goto ftp.suse.com, and look at the source RPM's. as per the GPL, the code is freely avadiable. nothing in the GPL say's it must be free in cost, or in time.

IMO, by refusing to release ISO's for x86 & PPC versions, Suse is weeding out the "lookers" and bringing in the users who are serious about getting the best linux distro commercially avadiable

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190. Umm Hmm I would love to run SuSE, but i choose to run Mandrake instead because of the lack of ISO's. I have my company buy it's distro's for our company machines, but for private/home use the ISO should be available.
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Now this one is the stupidest yet. someone needs to buy a clue. all this person needs to do is borrow the CD's from work, take them home, install, then return the next day. If your company is running linux, chances are they'd be happy to loan them out.

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Linux first started out as freeware, available to anyone to download via the net in ISO form. When you make it propriatery to download some 5 GB's of files, you are pusing people away from your distrubution and ultimately linux.
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ok, another canidate to have a brain installed. Linux is not, and never has been freeware. What it is is open scource, governed by the GPL. you may charge for your distribution if you wish, but nothing says your customer can't distribute free copies.

as to orginally being avadiable in .ISO's, bzzt! orginally llinux was a few megabytes of source code. Not .iso, not .rpm, not even gzipped .tars. maybe .z's, but all linux was orginally was source code. as linus said "by hackers, for hackers"

and download 5 gigs? who is this guy kidding? download the boot .iso image, burn it, then select minimal system with X. you can then go back later and use YAST to get other stuff as you need it.

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241. Blah This isnt feasible since there are copyrighted packages on the SuSE ISOs otherwise they would be glad to release it. Also, you must be a bit naive to believe ppl would actually promise to buy a version later --- besides, suse kinda sucks, try out www.gentoo.org ;)
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this guy almost gets it, cept there seems to be a problem with the end of his posting.

If SuSE does ever decide to issue .ISO's, my suggestion to them would be personal version, and yank the copyrighted material out. but as I said above, I see no need. SuSE is the best comercial distro, to get better I'd have to compile my own taylor made version. Since SuSE supports the open scource comminity financially, I figure by paying money for their product they're just acting as my agent to pay all of the thousands of programmers who wrote the software you and I use every day.

So thank you SuSE for selling me your product, instead of making it easy for me to get free copies.