http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti... Jim Stalewski wrote:
I think you're all (except for Harald) off-base and are falling prey to anti-M$ "fud" from the OSS community.
This deal does not have anything to do with OSS per-se, or the inclusion/exclusion of proprietary, licensed, patented M$ crud finding its way into OSS projects like OpenSuSE.
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html
OpenSuSE is not part of the M$ agreement. It's partly a promise to extend patent indemnification to Novell customers. OpenSuSE is fully OSS, so that's not part of it at all.
The co-development part of the deal, as concerns OSS, only concerns making it easier to use virtualization technologies to support a mixed open and closed source environment, and making sure OpenOffice will interoperate well with MS Office when M$ pushes their "open" format on their victims.
It has nothing to do with a) putting closed-source, patented code into OpenSuSE or any of the programs that come with the OpenSuSE Distro or b) putting closed-source, patented code into OpenOffice.Org or changing the OpenDocument Format.
Get a grip, folks.
*/Bjoern JACKE <bjoern@j3e.de>/* wrote:
Hi Harald,
On 2006-11-17 at 06:41 +0000 Harald Milz sent off: >Jose Luis Ricardo Chavez wrote: >> what extent do Novell have control on the OpenSuSE distribution? Is it >> also covered by the MS-Novell deal? > >No, it is not covered. OpenSUSE is a community effort, very much like >Fedora.
I think you are wrong here. AKAIK OpenSUSE is also covered by the patents part of the Novell-Microsoft deal. One may like that or not. And OpenSuSE is still a very Novell-driven distro there is not much the community can really have influence on. To call it a "community effort" or not very much depends on what you mean with having influence. Mostly anything you can do is report bugs and make suggestions in an open bugzilla but if Novell does not like it it won't be done. This is not what I understand to be a "community effort".
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