-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi scsijon, Finally someone else who "gets it!" Finally someone else who realizes the YaST Public License is not open source by any accepted standard. Finally someone who realizes if SuSE doesn't want it, then why not open source it! Good job scsi! :-D SuSE: You'd be wise to listen to people like this. Join Mandrake and RedHat and enter the Open Source revolution. C'mon, it won't hurt, but it sure could help.
IT was kind of funny because my letter consisted of "There are things in YaST which are NOT in YaST2" and the form-letter-response starts right off talking about how YaST2 has more features then YaST ever had.... the liars. Keep it up SuSE, and you won't have any customers left in a few years. If, as they say, YAST1 is uneconomical to maintain alongside YAST2, then Open Source it and let us maintain it ourselves !
I couldn't say it better.
At 12:44 PM 5/4/02 +0000, dids wrote:
And no, you're not missing something obvious. We are all missing something that SuSE obviously missed creating the new Yast. ;-) Please send your complaints about this to feedback@suse.de
sent a note - :(
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and get no answer!
I know that feeling. I requested information from SuSE about obtaining a copy of 8.0 for a review and they ignored me (unlike Codeweavers, OEone, Mandrake, NeTraverse, theKompany, and other open source companies). SuSE needs to get it's PR act together.
From the number of people screaming over it's loss (including me), i'm sure there are enough people that would work on it, enhance it to do everything Yast2 can do in text mode, include the ability to handle the other linux versions file package formats, then as others see what it can do give it the ability to be useable by other Linux Versions, then spread it across the Linux world as a cross platform standard.
Or maybe that's what SuSE are afraid of and that's why they won't.
Whatever the reason, it's sad SuSE promotes their distro under the banner of open source, but are too control hungry with YaST to use the power of open source on their own product. Certainly it couldn't hurt 'em, it hasn't hurt Mandrake or RedHat... -Tim - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler tbutler@uninetsolutions.com Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ============== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE82/HIK37Cns9gJ0gRAnQMAJwIm2uP8j6byLvqyLtvcfX3Elq2ewCeNdBh SC2ydDTnUAeSBfSqjH1bKms= =MV5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----