Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:12, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 04:08 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 November 2005 05:38, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > > I don't believe Novell execs
> > > quite understand what "free" in free software means.
> >
> > It's very sad that Dr Mantel has gone, and I also salute him for his work
> > on SuSE down the years.  However, the above sentence is not entirely fair
> > - after all, Novell has opensourced all of SUSE for the first time, and
> > started opensuse (it could be argued that this should have been done
> > about 3 years ago, and Novell didn't own the company then).
>
> 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.

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Kevin Donnelly

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