Curtis Rey
[...] I just hope this doesn't backfire on Novell and negatively impact F/OSS and Linux. This is a pity! I have been using SuSU since 7.x. And when I think how SuSE started and where it's gone the thought of having it dismantled by Ballmer and his cohorts I find it a bitter pill to swallow - and can only imagine what the Original SuSE team feels.
I hope the same. But the reaction on the patent part has been - and that doesn't surprise me completely - quite bad by the community so let's see...
I truly hope this works out - but please please be careful when dealing with the likes of M$. I personally would trust them any further than I could spit - and I tend to dribble down my chin when I try :P
I'm not talking with them directly, so no fear ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126