SheridanJ West wrote:
I'd like to thank all of you who have answered posts of mine to this mailing list (before it renamed). For the record i was waiting 10.2 and then bang Novell did a sco like licensing deal with the evil borg persons.
Linux does not mean 'i support microsoft with money'
So I'm moving to new distro. Whether suse/novell consider us a hobby user is not important but supporting microsoft is not the deal i signed on with Suse before Novell bought it.
While i may not be supporting the ms deal if say i bought disks for 10, it's the thought that my loyalty is misplaced now. I can do better and mod perl 2 excites me.
So thank you once again and goodbye.
Before being too hasty, please get your facts straight. It is not a licensing deal. Novell ensured the agreement was compliant with GPL. It doesn't give them the right to include MS patents in Linux. It simply means MS won't sue SUSE users, should a patent violation turn up. Also, MS is paying Novell far more than what Novell pays MS, so the net result is more money for Novell. Someone else had posted a link to a Novell Q&A page. Perhaps you might want to read it. That said, I am opposed to any such deal with MS, as I'll always be suspicious of them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org