Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

["Peter Flodin" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/8/06, Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:36 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> > Tirsdag 07 november 2006 16:17 skrev Pascal Bleser:
> > > Yes, a FAQ would be great too.
> >
> > I agree a lot with Pascal, it's impossible to predict the consequences of
> > the agreement in general, but it's very clear that openSUSE is suffering a
> > lot.
>
> is it ? can't it be also the case that openSUSE and the general open source
> world gets also lots of new chances ?

At least part of the openSUSE community is suffering a lot. They have
woken up one day to find the likes of Steve Balmer threaten Linux
distributors with FUD and are using SUSE by name to do it. This tugs
at the core reasons why we use Linux in the first place. I can fully
understand where the boycott SUSE sentiment is coming from.


> The problem is that issues with patents do already affect our software. And we
> need to deal with them. But these problems did also exist before and need
> really to spend here quite some effort to find such software and remove it
> (because it is very often anyway a GPL violation).

Be careful with generic (and even more with specific) statements in
this area as they can have large ramifications: OPENSUSE PROJECT LEAD
CONFIRMS "LINUX BREACHES PATENTS", oh and, "GET LICENSE HERE....."

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