Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 05:19 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:12, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > There was nothing wrong with SuSE retaining control of YaST.  I said much
> > about this in the past.  The fact that there is free software does _not_
> > mean that all software must be free.  SuSE provided the source for YaST,
> > and were very careful about conforming to published and agreed upon
> > industry standards.
>
> I agree, but the OP was saying that Novell had no commitment to free
> software, which I don't think is borne out by the facts.

I am the OP, and I specifically said "Novell execs", and use the word 
"understanding" not commitment.  I have not been following the OpenSuSE 
development, so I am not sure that YaST was GPLed, but Novell execs GPLing 
YaST does not demonstrate an understanding on their part of what the free in 
free software means.

What I didn't mention in this posting from several years ago was the part 
about how I was watching Novell get their lunch eaten by Microsoft.  That was 
really the motivation for my starting the thread.

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=90349986314191&w=2

Steven