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Re: [opensuse-project] Question on openSUSE and Novell-MS collaboration
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:37:29 -0800
- Message-id: <200611071337.29461.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 13:24, Peter Flodin wrote:
> ...
>
> At least part of the openSUSE community is suffering a lot.
Clearly any "suffering" is self-imposed or a matter of perception only.
All the wailing and gnashing of teeth is based wholly on assumptions and
alogical projections of things that occurred or were peceived to have
occurred in the past.
It's all pretty iffy, at this point.
> They have
> woken up one day to find the likes of Steve Balmer threaten Linux
> distributors with FUD and are using SUSE by name to do it. This tugs
> at the core reasons why we use Linux in the first place. I can fully
> understand where the boycott SUSE sentiment is coming from.
I though those on the inside of the Linux world, certainly business
people who are distributing Linux commercially, could see through any
of the stock Microsoft FUD tactics.
If not, we're in bigger trouble than this deal might portend.
People are just flying off the handle. It's premature at this point to
do anything other than wait and see. Asking questions is fine.
Hypothesizing future events following on from this agreement is a
reasonable thing to do, _if done in a reasonable and logical manner_.
But most of of what we're hearing is just a more intense version of what
we heard when Novell bought SuSE and when the announcement of a shift
of emphasis from KDE to Gnome was made. As far as I can tell, the sky
has not fallen, not here, not over Provo, not anywhere in the Linux
world.
People need to chill out and think clearly before speaking and acting.
> ...
>
> Pflodo
Randall Schulz
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> ...
>
> At least part of the openSUSE community is suffering a lot.
Clearly any "suffering" is self-imposed or a matter of perception only.
All the wailing and gnashing of teeth is based wholly on assumptions and
alogical projections of things that occurred or were peceived to have
occurred in the past.
It's all pretty iffy, at this point.
> They have
> woken up one day to find the likes of Steve Balmer threaten Linux
> distributors with FUD and are using SUSE by name to do it. This tugs
> at the core reasons why we use Linux in the first place. I can fully
> understand where the boycott SUSE sentiment is coming from.
I though those on the inside of the Linux world, certainly business
people who are distributing Linux commercially, could see through any
of the stock Microsoft FUD tactics.
If not, we're in bigger trouble than this deal might portend.
People are just flying off the handle. It's premature at this point to
do anything other than wait and see. Asking questions is fine.
Hypothesizing future events following on from this agreement is a
reasonable thing to do, _if done in a reasonable and logical manner_.
But most of of what we're hearing is just a more intense version of what
we heard when Novell bought SuSE and when the announcement of a shift
of emphasis from KDE to Gnome was made. As far as I can tell, the sky
has not fallen, not here, not over Provo, not anywhere in the Linux
world.
People need to chill out and think clearly before speaking and acting.
> ...
>
> Pflodo
Randall Schulz
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