On 11/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anderson Fernandes de Alencar</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:alencar@paulofreire.org">alencar@paulofreire.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everyone! I have a little doubt, sorry for my terrible english...<br><br>After these discussions about the relation between Microsoft-Novell, we<br>need to be sure about a thing.<br><br>If, somehow, we have serious problems in the future because of this
<br>relation, are we able to maintain without Novell support, the OpenSuse?<br>The community has total access to the source of the distribution? We<br>will be able to continue the OpenSuse? Or if the Novell decides to sell
<br>it or do any other thing, like close its code, are we able to continue<br>developing it or we will need to move to another distribution because we<br>need to pay?<br><br>Sorry for too much questions, i hope you understand my point.
</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Well, no one can read the future and it's way too early to be able to figure out anything about what this will mean to SUSE and Linux. If you personally don't like what Novell and MS have done and what it symbolizes, then you can activally not support them in any way. 
i.e don't buy their products and don't tell other people to buy their products. Thats the best way to fight company's whom you don't like what they are doing. <br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>jjgitties,<br><br>&quot;*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend.&quot;