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Re: [opensuse-project] Invitation to OpenSUSE developers
- From: Saill White <saill.white@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:23:15 -0800
- Message-id: <456746A3.3030701@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Andreas, thank you.
That's wonderful.
Saill
On 11/24/2006 11:14 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> If you have an interest in being part of a vibrant community that cares
>> about keeping free software widely available and protecting the rights
>> of people to get it free of charge, free to modify, free of murky
>> encumbrances and “undisclosed balance sheet liabilities”, then please do
>> join us.
>
> We do share these goals as well.
>
>> I know that posting this message to an OpenSUSE list will be
>> controversial. I'm greatly respectful of the long tradition of
>> excellence in the SuSE product and community and have no desire to
>> undermine that with this post. That said, I think the position taken by
>> Novell leadership in their contract with Microsoft is hugely
>> disrespectful of the contributions of thousands of GPL programmers and
>> contributors to SuSE, and I know that many are looking for a new place
>> to get involved that is not subject to the same arbitrary executive
>> intervention. Ubuntu is one option, as are Gentoo, Debian and other
>> communities. Please accept this mail in that spirit.
>
> There's been a lot of confusion and misrepresentation - and maybe not
> the best reaction from Novell to all the concerns and fears that the
> contract raised - but I do see us on the same side: as part of the
> open source community.
>
> Mark, I'd like to invite you to discuss what possibilities we have to
> work together against the domination of Microsoft on the desktops -
> instead of fighting against each other.
>
> I would prefer to see more users switching from Windows to Linux than
> just Linux users switching distributions.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
> Project Lead openSUSE distribution
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That's wonderful.
Saill
On 11/24/2006 11:14 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> If you have an interest in being part of a vibrant community that cares
>> about keeping free software widely available and protecting the rights
>> of people to get it free of charge, free to modify, free of murky
>> encumbrances and “undisclosed balance sheet liabilities”, then please do
>> join us.
>
> We do share these goals as well.
>
>> I know that posting this message to an OpenSUSE list will be
>> controversial. I'm greatly respectful of the long tradition of
>> excellence in the SuSE product and community and have no desire to
>> undermine that with this post. That said, I think the position taken by
>> Novell leadership in their contract with Microsoft is hugely
>> disrespectful of the contributions of thousands of GPL programmers and
>> contributors to SuSE, and I know that many are looking for a new place
>> to get involved that is not subject to the same arbitrary executive
>> intervention. Ubuntu is one option, as are Gentoo, Debian and other
>> communities. Please accept this mail in that spirit.
>
> There's been a lot of confusion and misrepresentation - and maybe not
> the best reaction from Novell to all the concerns and fears that the
> contract raised - but I do see us on the same side: as part of the
> open source community.
>
> Mark, I'd like to invite you to discuss what possibilities we have to
> work together against the domination of Microsoft on the desktops -
> instead of fighting against each other.
>
> I would prefer to see more users switching from Windows to Linux than
> just Linux users switching distributions.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
> Project Lead openSUSE distribution
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