Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

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

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. 

Steven