Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

["Chris Bonner" <clawrence.bonner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/11/06, susedevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <susedevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> OpenSuSE has no such third party software nor does it have corporate
> support. If
> you have problems you have to check out the forums. It'd be REALLY hard
> for
> Microsoft to force their patents on OpenSuse mainly because it's open
> source.
> Also, do you think the community will allow that. None of us are going to
> give MS
> the money for patents. As long as we remain open source, microsoft will be
> really
> limited. We are a community and can do what we want w or w/o microsoft.
> Even if
> Novell wanted them to, as a maintainer, they must heed to the GPL. Being
> such a
> large company, if they don't, everyone will know.


I completely agree.

Chris.