Trifle Menot schreef:
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:45:00 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua <albert.passalacqua@gmail.com> wrote:
P.S. We had so many discussions about the Novell/Microsoft deal that ended up nowhere already. It is a fact that the deal was not the disaster someone was foreseeing. Let's move on and talk of the topics of actual interest for openSUSE. Thanks. :-)
As long as opensuse is a child of Novell, the politics of the deal will impede the growth of opensuse. Independence is necessary for attaining maturity.
For most 'outsiders', that deal was the worst case of *treason*, ever performed against the opensource world..... meaning suse became part of the 'enemy'.. The only player on the market, capable to defeat M$, was bought and sold... Foundations of open source shaken.... If you cann't beat them, buy them.... With this deal a curse went over suse, and many many people turned away from it. This is a fact, not to be denied... The only way to get over it is: Getting independent... But the damage is done, and we face the consequences every day... And i donot know, if Windows 7 is born out of that deal, but it is the best OS build by MS until now. But OK, done is done, nothing can change that now... Being independent does not mean Novell cannot sponsor oS, or lets it use the infrastructure... What of becoming a parter from Novell? If Novell is for sale, can the community buy it? What is it oS needs, besides the infrastructure and a lot of money? -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball, aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org