On Friday 10 November 2006 23:56, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 10 November 2006 18:40, J Sloan wrote:
I would think it's quite obvious - it's a double standard. Either it's OK to be involved with microsoft, or it's not. You can't have it both ways.
Sure he can. Who appointed you king?
One can be involved in microsoft in the paid software world and be disinclined to be involved with microsoft in the free software world.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
I think what most of us are thinking and trying to say is that it is entirely hypocritical on his point. Its OK for him to make a living and earn money from having to deal with windows, but because Novell has to do the same thing, he is saying its wrong. It IS exactly the same thing. Just because Novell is larger does not mean it was not looking at its finacial future and realizing that it had to do this to make it through a hard point. We are not saying that he is evil for dealing with Microsoft. We are saying that he is being hypocritical by holding others to standards that he himself does not feel. And he is perfectly allowed to feel that way, BUT, it definitely lets us know exactly where he is coming from. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org