On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:12, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Thursday 10 November 2005 04:08 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Thursday 10 November 2005 05:38, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I don't believe Novell execs quite understand what "free" in free software means.
It's very sad that Dr Mantel has gone, and I also salute him for his work on SuSE down the years. However, the above sentence is not entirely fair - after all, Novell has opensourced all of SUSE for the first time, and started opensuse (it could be argued that this should have been done about 3 years ago, and Novell didn't own the company then).
There was nothing wrong with SuSE retaining control of YaST. I said much about this in the past. The fact that there is free software does _not_ mean that all software must be free. SuSE provided the source for YaST, and were very careful about conforming to published and agreed upon industry standards.
I agree, but the OP was saying that Novell had no commitment to free software, which I don't think is borne out by the facts. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD