Why wasn't the PR firm spreading this news around liberally? On Thursday 08 February 2001 21:57, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Cliff Sarginson (cliff@raggedclown.net) [20010208 11:03]:
Suse did not create Linux/GNU. They package it and include configuration facilities that they did write (and are not GPL'ed). I am not aware of any software packages that Suse have contributed back (X11 video drivers maybe ?).
Maybe we didn't contribute a package, but we certainly did and *do* contribute to Linux substancially in quite a few places:
- XFree86: most of the core team are employed by SuSE
- kernel: Andrea Archangeli, Andi Kleen, Jens Axboe, Karsten Keil (isdn4linux)
- glibc: many of the core developers work for SuSE (Thorsten Kukuk, Andreas Jaeger, Andreas Schwab)
- quite a few KDE developers work for SuSE
- reiserfs (Chris Mason works for SuSE)
- gcc: most of the improved support for ix86 was done by Jan Hubicka
. Add to that our work on porting Linux to AMDs upcomming x86-64 processor. This all is work the *whole* Linux community benefits from, not just SuSE customers. And that list is not complete!
Suse GMBH is a hard-nosed bunch of businessmen seeking to maximise bucks at minimum cost.
Beg your pardon, but it's *not*. If it would be, chances are high I'd quit. SuSE is much more than that but the salary for 600 employees has to be earned somehow. I at least am gratefull that SuSE has offered me a chance to make a living out of a hobby. And I also know few companies (German ones, of course) that would offer me the freedom I have here at SuSE.
I sincerely hope the people that Suse have just shoved on the pavement gets jobs soon.
Yes, that's also my hope.
Philipp
-- "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are a gift of God? Thomas Jefferson - 1781