In as much as I have criticized the monster known as MS, I don't think a lot of you really want to go slit your wrists open, tear out your hair, and put on sackcloth just yet. We don't even know the complete financial details of this deal yet. And I wonder if the same doom and gloomers are the ones who have consistently bitched about interoperability for MS-Linux. Guess what guys, you can't have it both ways.

I'd say this is convenient on both sides now, and the outcome depends upon how good the two sides are at managing their relationship and the outcome. It is convenient for MS is it is starting to get attacked for its abuse of market position, and so the existence of this exercise (and not any results) is a defence against further major prosecutions of that type. Any results will also have the benefit of allowing MS (and the software vendors who depend upon an MS platform) back into the growing number of places which have declared themselves as open-source only. On the Novell / SuSE side it will make it easier to introduce Linux into existing IT setups which are mostly MS based. Getting Linux to interoperate with the MS infrastructure is a real pain, and this pain is a distraction from the real job. We should all applaud if we get to the position where, whatever the underlying infrastructure, the choice of server / desktop OS is determined by what is right for the job at hand, not whether you can get the thing to talk properly to the existing infrastructure. And yes, MS has shown itself in the past to be much more adept at managing these situations to benefit itself. They're just doing what any true believer in capitalism should do. David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 03 November 2006 04:08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

I wouldn't call that selling the users down the river. Independent of the fate of Novell the deal will stop worries about MS killing the open source movement with patents.

Yes, though it's unclear from the press release whether the patent ceasefire is in perpetuity, or merely for the duration of the Novell agreement (up to 2012, IIRC). I got the impression it was the latter, so there is the difficulty that Microsoft could argue in any future legal assault that one of the leading distro makers explicitly accepted there were patent issues in Linux. That's not so good. In general, though, this is an interesting development. If it makes Linux easier for new people to use as a desktop (because of less issues with multimedia), that might be a good thing. Provided any Microsoft-supplied code is kept well-away from core GPL areas (to prevent future difficulties), and packaged as some sort of add-on, there should be no ongoing problems - after all, development of Linux and free software is not going to stop any time soon. It's also quite a sea-change - who a few years ago would have said that Microsoft would even acknowledge Linux as a competitor, never mind "sell" services related to it (even through gritted teeth). This in fact says a lot about how the IT landscape is shifting under them, even if Microsoft PR says otherwise. One of the big drivers for this, I think, is virtualisation, where Microsoft has been caught on the hop. They will certainly try to suck what they can out of this and spit out the husk, but it's up to Novell to ensure openSUSE don't get left with cinders - if they are robust about the GPL, that shouldn't be the case. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger a écrit :

This one is irrevocable - for ever,

and if the GPL account is done in the contract like it's said in the Novell announce, this is not only good for openSUSE but for any app included in openSUSE, even when included in other applications (this is forced by GPL) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

El Viernes, 3 de Noviembre de 2006 18:11, Kevin Donnelly escribió:

On Friday 03 November 2006 14:26, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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Yes, though it's unclear from the press release whether the patent ceasefire is in perpetuity, or merely for the duration of the Novell agreement (up to 2012, IIRC).  I got the impression it was the latter, so there is the difficulty that Microsoft could argue in any future legal assault that one of the leading distro makers explicitly accepted there were patent issues in Linux.  That's not so good.

This one is irrevocable - for ever,

That is interesting. It would be a good idea for Novell to put out some additional explanatory material in the next few days, addressing the various excitable comments that have been made in discussions on this. I'll just quote Groklaw's PJ:

Take a look at "Microsoft's Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers" and read about how it works: "To further encourage these efforts, this pledge provides non-compensated individual hobbyist developers royalty-free use of Microsoft patents as set forth below.... Microsoft hereby covenants not to assert Microsoft Patents against each Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developer (also referred to as "You") for Your personal creation of an originally authored work ("Original Work") and personal use of Your Original Work. This pledge is personal to You and does not apply to the use of Your Original Work by others or to the distribution of Your Original Work **by You** or others." So Microsoft is purporting to provide hobbyists "royalty free use of Microsoft patents" as if they are understood to be infringed already. But by my reading, the pledge only holds for you using your own software, not if you distribute it. And it doesn't apply to others using the work you may contribute to Linux. You personally won't be sued, but if Red Hat uses your patch, it could be. That's how it looks to me. But if you kept it to yourself, how would MS ever know? (I should also note that in Europe, a private hobbyist can never infringe any patent with his own private use of anything.) So that side is rather pointless. More to the point, how does this help if you open yourself up to legal shenanigans as soon as you share your work with anyone?

In particular, is Novell suggesting that there is some truth to the suggestion that parts of Linux infringe patents, or is it simply accepting that Microsoft has rights over its own stuff (eg codecs)? Most comments on the net tend to assume the former, but I would have thought the latter is equally plausible.

The only fly I still see in the ointment is the phrase "individual, non-commercial developers". For example, does this mean that a group of non-commercial developers, or a single developer who decides to sell a service based on the app he's developed, are not covered?

And as Marcel Hilzinger said: "Why are there 2 different points in the patent question? Will there be a difference between OpenSUSE and Suse Linux Enterprise? What about contributors to OpenSUSE.org whose code is _not_ included in the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform? Are they covered by the second statement?"

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On Friday 03 November 2006 18:11, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

In particular, is Novell suggesting that there is some truth to the suggestion that parts of Linux infringe patents,

No, Novell's position is that there are no infringing parts. This is just a guarantee that if in future something is found, the customers and distributors won't be held accountable This isn't a patent license, it's a promise not to sue Disclaimer: I'm not an official spokesman, this is just how I understand things --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

El Viernes, 3 de Noviembre de 2006 19:35, Anders Johansson escribió:

On Friday 03 November 2006 18:11, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

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In particular, is Novell suggesting that there is some truth to the suggestion that parts of Linux infringe patents,

No, Novell's position is that there are no infringing parts.

This is just a guarantee that if in future something is found, the customers and distributors won't be held accountable Another quote: "Microsoft reserves the right to update (including discontinue) the foregoing covenant pursuant to the terms of the Patent Cooperation Agreement between Novell and Microsoft that was publicly announced on November 2, 2006; however, the covenant will continue as to specific copies of Covered Products distributed by Microsoft for Revenue before the end of the Term."

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On Sunday 05 November 2006 01:17, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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That is interesting. It would be a good idea for Novell to put out some additional explanatory material in the next few days, addressing the various excitable comments that have been made in discussions on this.

I expect something like this to happen soon.

It's really worth it. Novell seems to go from one PR fiasco to another. And RH for one has certainly learned how to take advantage of it.

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In particular, is Novell suggesting that there is some truth to the suggestion that parts of Linux infringe patents, or is it simply accepting that Microsoft has rights over its own stuff (eg codecs)? Most comments on the net tend to assume the former, but I would have thought the latter is equally plausible.

Not at all. We're of the opinion that there are no patent infringements right now in Linux and the deal does not imply that we think so. There 're just a lot of customers that want to be on the safe side and we help to protect them *if* such a case applies.

Novell didn't say it, but Ballmer did. He claimed MS can sue any other distributor any time. And in a way, this does seem that Novell helped MS to distribute FUD. Be more careful next time. Fear that Novell will become MSs next FUD engine is really rather realistic. You have already been used in this context once. Please don't let that happen again. -- // Janne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Janne Karhunen a écrit :

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Novell didn't say it, but Ballmer did. He claimed MS can sue any other distributor any time.

Microsoft can sue anybody even if there no real infrengement... no individual can afford sue from such a big company

so the assert he wont is already a good point

jdd

The assertion is hardly a concern here. Neither are the 'royalties'. It's FUD. It's like the SCO sockpuppet, which could go as far as delaying a city's migration to Linux. If it doesn't make Novell look weak, it sure hurts Red Hat's reputation. It may be good (short-term) for Novell, but it's dreadful for the community as a whole. With kind regards, Roy -- Roy S. Schestowitz, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Biophysics http://Schestowitz.com | GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E http://othellomaster.com - GPL'd 3-D Othello http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 06 November 2006 08:16, Rasmus Plewe wrote:

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:27:51AM +0100, jdd wrote:

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Janne Karhunen a écrit :

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Novell didn't say it, but Ballmer did. He claimed MS can sue any other distributor any time.

Microsoft can sue anybody even if there no real infrengement... no individual can afford sue from such a big company

In fact, Miocrosoft can sue anybody at anytime, just as I can visit my lawyer today and sue you. This does of course not neccessarily mean we have a chance of winning, Microsoft and me[0]...

It's very expensive to defend yourself in a lawsuit. Unless the suit is so pathetic that it can be laughed out of court in a week (and even SCO's nonsense hasn't been thrown out yet) you will require a ton of money just to get through the pre-trial phase so you can get to court and defend yourself Smaller companies can't defend themselves against things like that, they're likely to go bankrupt from the legal costs, so they will rather settle out of court immediately, so they at least can survive Generally you don't hear much about it, because it gets settled behind closed doors. But it is, for example, the reason why small web sites close down when big companies wave legal documents A law suit can be an offensive weapon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:57:50AM +0100, jdd wrote:

Rasmus Plewe a écrit :

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In fact, Miocrosoft can sue anybody at anytime, just as I can visit my lawyer today and sue you. This does of course not neccessarily mean we have a chance of winning, Microsoft and me[0]...

yes but any claim saying you wont ever do that is good for me...

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On Saturday 04 November 2006 23:17, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

Kevin Donnelly writes:

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That is interesting. It would be a good idea for Novell to put out some additional explanatory material in the next few days, addressing the various excitable comments that have been made in discussions on this.

I expect something like this to happen soon.

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The only fly I still see in the ointment is the phrase "individual, non-commercial developers". For example, does this mean that a group of non-commercial developers, or a single developer who decides to sell a service based on the app he's developed, are not covered?

Leaving the broader deal with Novell aside: the Microsoft promise to "non-compensated hobbyist developers" is 100% useless. From the actual announcement, read it at: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/community.mspx#ESB === "To further encourage these efforts, this pledge provides non-compensated individual hobbyist developers royalty-free use of Microsoft patents as set forth below.... Microsoft hereby covenants not to assert Microsoft Patents against each Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developer (also referred to as "You") for Your personal creation of an originally authored work ("Original Work") and personal use of Your Original Work. This pledge is personal to You and does not apply to the use of Your Original Work by others or to the distribution of Your Original Work **by You** or others." === WHAT? "Personal to You"? "Does not apply to the use of Your Original Work by others"? The whole *point* of making software open source in the first place is to encourage and assure its free redistribution! Basically M$ is saying, "write all the 'open source' software you want, and we promise not to sue you -- unless you ever give that software to anyone else, for any purpose, ever." It's ludicrous. I hope you all see that. The "non-compensated developer" part doesn't even matter. This was nothing more than a pretend promise, written to fool people that don't know any better (analysts, CFOs, etc). A single reading shows this "promise" to be *obviously* worthless. Perhaps the Microsoft legal team was hoping that no one would actually read it. Don't be fooled. Whatever feelings you may have about the Novell/M$ deal, this "promise" makes one thing clear: Microsoft doesn't care *even a little bit* about individual open source developers. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 05:08 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

Kurt Wall wrote:

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This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell. I appreciate the openSUSE != SUSE insofar as openSUSE is, ostensibly at least, a community project, but when Microsoft turns on Novell, _and they will_, I don't want to be around to get any on me. So long.

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From the FAQ on the Novell site: "Microsoft is also pledging not to assert its patents against individual, non-commercial open source developers"

I wouldn't call that selling the users down the river. Independent of the fate of Novell the deal will stop worries about MS killing the open source movement with patents.

An opinion voiced on another list: "I wonder whether this is a preliminary to bringing patent infringement action against other Linux distributors. After all, Microsoft can't be seen to be trying to squelch Linux, as this might be regarded as anti-competitive, but trying to enforce patents against distributors who won't sign up could be a different matter." See also: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403 I hope they're wrong, I really do. But lets face it, in this world every business preaches competition but actually wants to be the monopoly provider. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Dňa Pi 3. November 2006 09:07 Andreas Hanke napísal:

Michal Hlavac schrieb:

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When I leave M$ (3 years ago) and choose Suse, I felt free... Now I am confusing.... I am deciding to leave suse and choose something like kubuntu... I like to feel free...

Yes, you need to switch to KUbuntu immediately. Because of a corporate agreement between Novell and Microsoft that nobody knows what it is about and that does most likely neither affect you nor the openSUSE project at all.

;) thanks for advice... I said, I am confusing... You read my mind... We don't know how this agreement affect openSUSE. But what I know is that I don't like M$ and its practices... So I thing my qualm is reasonable...

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Yes, you need to switch to KUbuntu immediately. Because of a corporate agreement between Novell and Microsoft that nobody knows what it is about and that does most likely neither affect you nor the openSUSE project at all.

You're hiding your head in the sand if you actually believe this. The implications of Novell's actions today are *crystal* clear to the rest of the open source world. Novell is now trying to claim that *their* version of Linux is free of patent risks, and that everyone else's Linux isn't. Section 7 of the GPL was written *precisely* to prevent this tactic. Here's the real meat of the problem: If Novell ever distributes code to any project under the GPL, and that code infringes a M$ patent, and M$ tries to assert patent rights on anyone in that patent, Novell immediately loses the right to distribute that code under the GPL, per section 7. Eben Moglen, counsel for the Free Software Foundation, has already said as much. You signed a patent agreement with M$ for speculative protection. And you'd better believe that the greater open source community will hold you accountable for your choice. Novell developers will find it *incredibly* difficult to work upstream now. You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in open source, or you don't. And by trying to use "patent protection" as a competitive advantage, Novell has made it clear which side of the fence they stand on. The sad irony: I don't believe that SuSE would ever have made this deal as an independent company. I've watched opensuse with interest since its inception. I always kind of figured that, as opensuse matured, the opensuse and Fedora communities might have had opportunities to work together directly. I guess that won't happen now. Too bad. --g On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:

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Michal Hlavac schrieb:

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When I leave M$ (3 years ago) and choose Suse, I felt free... Now I am confusing.... I am deciding to leave suse and choose something like kubuntu... I like to feel free...

And you just got to switch to [KX]?Ubuntu, which Shuttleworth will sell to Sun, which already has a deal with MS *g* ;)

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Dňa Pi 3. November 2006 03:38 Kurt Wall napísal:

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http://tinyurl.com/y7rcmb

Novell has sold out. I don't see how this makes good business sense in the long term, except, of course, for Microsoft and possibly Red Hat. You don't make deals with Microsoft, because they'll find a way to to weasel out of it. Novell, of all companies, should understand this well. Are memories so fscking short? I'm stunned and astonished.

This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell. I appreciate the openSUSE != SUSE insofar as openSUSE is, ostensibly at least, a community project, but when Microsoft turns on Novell, _and they will_, I don't want to be around to get any on me. So long.

When I leave M$ (3 years ago) and choose Suse, I felt free... Now I am confusing.... I am deciding to leave suse and choose something like kubuntu... I like to feel free...

Well, wrt that, that deal gives you more guarantees of freedom: "The two companies, once bitter rivals, plan to also provide patent coverage for each other's customers for their respective products, the source said." (and guess who has the bigger patent portfolio.. that point is a good thing for us) And the OP is citing an article that states: "... technology that makes Linux work on Windows ..." How qualified is that ? ;) But if you actually want to quote a wallstreet article: "Shares of Novell rose 17.55 percent, or $1.03, to $6.90 [...] Microsoft shares fell 7 cents to $26.74" (it's a good deal for whom ? ;)) Just kidding. Seriously, this is becoming pathetic. Do you guys actually *read* the announcements ? "Microsoft is buying Novell !!" ... geez... wth Just wait and see. Even Sun has a deal with MS, it didn't kill them (if something kills Sun, it's their own management - the same can be said for SUSE btw ;)). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFSvoNr3NMWliFcXcRAsZQAJ0WEu0NrXP0MOzsCZJQOBW7uU39qACfaHCO yO/kLvtouuQZqflhQ0JO50I= =0sS7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-11-03 at 10:05 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote: ...

But if the vendor of my door locks starts a dialog with the local housebreaker association, I'll *immediately* replace all my locks, no matter how much they assure that it's only for my safety!

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Pascal Bleser wrote:

Michal Hlavac wrote:

And the OP is citing an article that states: "... technology that makes Linux work on Windows ..." How qualified is that ? ;)

I have zero interest in running a captive toy linux session on ms windoze. Linux runs best on the bare metal, but running "linux" as a program on an ms windoze peecee gains nothing, but carries costs and risks. OTOH ms windoze on linux could be interesting for several reasons (running legacy ms windoze programs, or running certain ms-only programs e.g. vizio, on a linux desktop) Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 03 November 2006 11:18, jdd wrote:

J Sloan a écrit :

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I have zero interest in running a captive toy linux session on ms windoze. Linux runs best on the bare metal, but running "linux" as a program on an ms windoze peecee gains nothing, but carries costs and risks.

there are very big advantages to this.

think at all the schools and formation instaitutes that use dayly windows machines and don't mind to install linux on then, how can you teach Linux there? the best way is running virtual machine on top of windows.

I do so for years, now, but VMware is extremely expensive.

VMWare server is $free$ (though not libre). The Workstation and other VMware products are still very pricey, as they always were, but it's no longer necessary to give any money to VMware Inc. to use their virtualization technology. Also, as another reference point, Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/) has virtualization that can be hosted on Windows or Mac OS X (for Intel processors only) and can host any Intel operating system, including a variety of Linuxes. Parallels is far cheaper than the cheapest non-free VMware product. They are not directly comparable (from a technological standpoint, Parallels uses paravirtualization, as Xen does), but I think the existence of Xen and Parallels is putting significant market pressure on VMware, which is a good thing. For a long time they (VMware) were the only game in town (the obsolescent VirtualPC notwithstanding). Now that's far from true.

Xen on Windows should be a very good news, for example...

I'd say so, though I still prefer to corral Windows within Linux and Mac OS X, as I do with my VMware and Parallels setups. If I had the cash to throw around, right now I'd explore using a Mac Pro (which has two dual-core Xeons and a 1067 MHz FSB) to host all my computing. Given at least 4GB of RAM and a hard drive-per-OS, I'd set up Mac OS X (possibly the Server variant) and use Parallels to host both SuSE Linux and Windows XP Pro. (As it stands, I had just put together a new Core 2 Duo box when my employer eliminated my group, so with no cash flow, the dollar-intensive experimentation has been brought to a rapid, though temporary halt.) All in all, I rather detest Microsoft, but I also acknowledge that as a professional (a software professional, no less) I cannot realistically afford to boycot MS entirely. Instead I apply a containment strategy.

jdd

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J Sloan a écrit :

No, that's bad news - to introduce linux as some sort of dorky toy ms windoze program is damaging to linux and gives a very bad impression of it.

not at all. It shows Linux can work very well with very few resources, and this is very good.

Anything would be better - linux on cheap boxes

I'm not allowed to connect any computer of my own on this net (and I would never allow such thing on my own net!) , dual boot I can't neither do so , virtual

windoze or wine on linux desktops

so no Linux - all are better solutions that the

one you advocate.

sometime you have to deal with situations you don't master. I had the ability to use a handfull of VMware licences (I know they are now free, but this is recent), but the main OS had to cope with proprietary software that could only run with Windows, and anyhow, I was just tolerated there :-( I just could trick the system giving my students access to a linux serveur located in an external place I did master. for many windows users, opening a ssh terminal (putty) and working with it is simple magic :-) - but here we go OT jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

J Sloan a écrit :

jdd wrote:

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J Sloan a écrit :

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I'm not allowed to connect any computer of my own on this net (and I would never allow such thing on my own net!)

You would never allow linux on your own net?

I wont allow any alien computer in my net, whatever system it runs (and certainly not Linux, much more dangerous than, say, windows 98 :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi, On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, SOTL wrote:

On Friday 03 November 2006 02:02, Michal Hlavac wrote:

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Dÿÿa Pi 3. November 2006 03:38 Kurt Wall napísal:

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http://tinyurl.com/y7rcmb

Novell has sold out. I don't see how this makes good business sense in the long term, except, of course, for Microsoft and possibly Red Hat. You don't make deals with Microsoft, because they'll find a way to to weasel out of it. Novell, of all companies, should understand this well. Are memories so fscking short? I'm stunned and astonished.

This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell. I appreciate the openSUSE != SUSE insofar as openSUSE is, ostensibly at least, a community project, but when Microsoft turns on Novell, _and they will_, I don't want to be around to get any on me. So long.

When I leave M$ (3 years ago) and choose Suse, I felt free... Now I am confusing.... I am deciding to leave suse and choose something like kubuntu... I like to feel free...

The issue here is Kubuntu does not include Gnome packages and Ubuntu does not include KDE packages and some people like myself use packages from both.

Please adjust your subject line. It is really annoying to see that a single paranoid subject is able to set headers for a long lasting thread here. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

Hi,

On Thursday, November 02, 2006 at 21:38:00, Kurt Wall wrote:

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Novell has sold out.

Let me remember. Nearly exactly 3 Years ago the tune was:

SUSE has sold out. Every company that got bought by Novell vanished. SUSE Linux will be dead by 2004. Novell destroys every good Product they have. Novell is evil and will destroy Linux.

Now look who's still here and is stronger than ever. We are! The openSUSE community.

Henne "dont shit your pants, wussy" Vogelsang

I have to agree with Henne. A "wait and see" attitude is definitely called for instead of "headless chicken" mode. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 03 November 2006 10:57, Anders Johansson wrote:

You're forgetting the natural reaction of people. After every announcement, people (frequently the same people in every announcement) say they've been using suse for 250 years, but now they are leaving for Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever

This announcement doesn't sound like we'll start selling windows, it means Microsoft will start selling SUSE. To me, on first reaction, that sounds like a good thing. Surprising as hell, but good

Yeah, the annoying thing is to see more FUD coming from inside the community than from MS itself. argh. Duncan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:05:03AM +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

___/ On Fri 03 Nov 2006 11:00:01 GMT, [ Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett ] wrote : \___

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On Friday 03 November 2006 10:57, Anders Johansson wrote:

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You're forgetting the natural reaction of people. After every announcement, people (frequently the same people in every announcement) say they've been using suse for 250 years, but now they are leaving for Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever

This announcement doesn't sound like we'll start selling windows, it means Microsoft will start selling SUSE. To me, on first reaction, that sounds like a good thing. Surprising as hell, but good

Yeah, the annoying thing is to see more FUD coming from inside the community than from MS itself.

argh.

Duncan

So what's the interpretation of the latest news?

Ballmer Invites Patent Talks with Competing Linux Vendors

"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is open to talking to other Linux distributors about reaching mutual patent coverage deals similar to the agreement signed Nov. 2 with Novell."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2050848,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616

Let's face it. Microsoft is turning Novell into the next SCO (according to WinE's lead dev). It's a weapon of FUD.

I would absolutely love to be proven otherwise.

Tom Wickline is _not_ Wine's lead developer. He is just "a developer". (Alexandre Julliard is the lead developer ;) Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

A "wait and see" attitude is definitely called for instead of "headless chicken" mode.

Ha ha.. come on... headless chicken mode is so much more entertaining to watch though :-) I love how everyone suddenly becomes an expert, and provides "facts" they pluck out of thin air. They don't watch the webcast... they don't know the details.. yet they run around waving their tinfoil hats at everyone proclaiming doom. C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org