On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 05:08 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Kurt Wall wrote:
This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell. I appreciate the openSUSE != SUSE insofar as openSUSE is, ostensibly at least, a community project, but when Microsoft turns on Novell, _and they will_, I don't want to be around to get any on me. So long.
From the FAQ on the Novell site: "Microsoft is also pledging not to assert its patents against individual, non-commercial open source developers"
I wouldn't call that selling the users down the river. Independent of the fate of Novell the deal will stop worries about MS killing the open source movement with patents.
An opinion voiced on another list: "I wonder whether this is a preliminary to bringing patent infringement action against other Linux distributors. After all, Microsoft can't be seen to be trying to squelch Linux, as this might be regarded as anti-competitive, but trying to enforce patents against distributors who won't sign up could be a different matter." See also: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403 I hope they're wrong, I really do. But lets face it, in this world every business preaches competition but actually wants to be the monopoly provider. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org