Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Tony Pott <tony.pott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By accepting 'patent coverage', Novell are giving credence to FUD that
users of Linux are in danger of being sued for patent violations.
I am disgusted, I am  changing distros,  and I am sorry for the people
who work at SuSE,  so that's what I wrote: who are you to tell me I
shouldn't?

Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Tony Pott schrieb:
>   
>> To all the people at SuSE,
>> I know this isn't your fault, and I'm sorry I have to stop using your
>> excellent work. I'm sad to have to change to another distro, I've been a
>> fanboy since SuSE 8.0, but this deal is just disgusting.
>>     
>
> Ah, I see.
>
> Nobody gets what "this" deal is about, but you already know that it
> forces you to stop using the distribution. Highly interesting.
>
> Can you please read the announcement and point out which of the
> following prevents you from using the distribution:
>
> Patent coverage
> Virtualization
> Virtualization Management
> Office Open XML
> Collaboration Framework
> Mono, OpenOffice and Samba
>
>
>
> The mailinglist setup is right, this is SPAM. Use one of the existing "I
> have been a SUSE fanboy since 231847941 years and now switching to
> [A-Z]Ubuntu" threads. We already have enough of them. Just post "me too"
> into the other threads.
>
> ARGH!
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