Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

["Timothy R. Butler" <tbutler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Actually, it doesn't :-) Like any other software house, they
> are allowed to
> > choose by themselves what license applies to the software they
> write on their
> > own. If YAST had been developed by the community, and was GPL,
> _then_ it
> > would stink as a skunk :-)

  Stink like a skunk if it was developed by the open source community? That
is definitely FUD. Look at KDE, Linux, Apache, Perl, the GNU Project - all
of these projects are open source, and they don't stink! Further more I
thought that was the reason people liked Linux - it was open source and the
community helped make it stable!
  I always assumed YaST was open source - I can't believe it's not. ALL the
major distro companies have open source config tools - RedHat, Caldera,
Corel, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Stormix - ALL of them. It's
disappointing to hear that an open source company doesn't believe in opening
it's own software up.

  -Tim

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