2010/6/9 Oddball <monkey9@iae.nl>:
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....
That's a problem of the Linux community more than of the deal itself. If you interpret a cooperation between two companies as a betrayal, and you see enemies in what are actually competitors in the business world, it's not the deal to be the problem, but the point of view that brings you to think that way. It is something the Linux community should work on, in the interest of Linux, and with a lot of criticism towards many of the extreme positions someone has. For the chronicles, MS did not buy Novell, who kept contributing to many open projects, more than many other noisy member of the community who criticized the deal. The work done on openoffice, mono and moonlight is unique and useful (to cite an example, I can have my CAD tools on Linux now because who makes them uses .NET, and they used mono on Linux). The Linux community should simply learn not to judge only by the name of the partner, which is not necessarily bad.
With this deal a curse went over suse, and many many people turned away from it. This is a fact, not to be denied...
I would reduce that "many" to "some". Some famous name left, yes. The project goes on. In the end that is what counts.
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.
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