Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <albert.passalacqua@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/6/9 Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>:

> For most 'outsiders', that deal was the worst case of *treason*, ever
> performed against the opensource world..... meaning suse became part of
> the 'enemy'..
> The only player on the market, capable to defeat M$, was bought and sold...
> Foundations of open source shaken....
> If you cann't beat them, buy them....

That's a problem of the Linux community more than of the deal itself.
If you interpret a cooperation between two companies as a betrayal,
and you see enemies in what are actually competitors in the business
world, it's not the deal to be the problem, but the point of view that
brings you to think that way. It is something the Linux community
should work on, in the interest of Linux, and with a lot of criticism
towards many of the extreme positions someone has.

For the chronicles, MS did not buy Novell, who kept contributing to
many open projects, more than many other noisy member of the community
who criticized the deal. The work done on openoffice, mono and
moonlight is unique and useful (to cite an example, I can have my CAD
tools on Linux now because who makes them uses .NET, and they used
mono on Linux). The Linux community should simply learn not to judge
only by the name of the partner, which is not necessarily bad.

> With this deal a curse went over suse, and many many people turned away
> from it.
> This is a fact, not to be denied...

I would reduce that "many" to "some". Some famous name left, yes. The
project goes on. In the end that is what counts.

> But the damage is done, and we face the consequences every day...
> And i donot know, if Windows 7 is born out of that deal, but it is the
> best OS build by MS until now.

Do you really think there is any connection? ;-)

Best,
A.
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