On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Mike wrote:

> Actually from what I know SuSE has control over Yast, which is thier
> "system manager" It is just a little less flexible than Hardrake in
> Mandrake. So they are keeping part of thir code hidden. Yes I 
> understand
> that sounds like what MSFT has done, however, I feel that could change
> in future distros.

There was a link posted to SUSE's YaST license and while it is neither 
GPL nor OSI approved, it is far from closed. See for yourself:
<http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/licenses/yast.html>