On Wednesday 11 April 2007 08:27, Druid wrote:
Find me one now after the MS deal, and find one about 10.2 release
have a good day
Marcio Yes, I know. That was my point. The Novell deal with M$ offended the Linux community... a little like high treason--- just without the rope. You must understand that Novell can say (and has said) that SLES and SLED (and maybe openSUSE also) are the *only* linux distros sanctioned by M$... against which FUD... and more FUD to come... will coerce IT managers to use SLED SLES vs RHES (or fedora) (whatever)... many many many people also make their living distribution linux... as it should be... and Novell steps in with M$ to continue the strong arm coercion tactics that M$ is famous for... bah.
Yes this deal has the appearance of giving linux a better overall saturation in the enterprise, and maybe even positive exposure for the home market... but it *hurts* the international community of linux developers generally. It hurts freedom, and it hurts computer science. You must understand that many of us fools are working very hard (not so that M$ and Linux play well together in the sandbox) rather to make certain that M$ gets scooped from the sandbox... kinda like cleaning kitty litter... :) Novell lost its Slashdot internet presence when it decided to play the coercion card with M$. The deal with Slashdot is not that they are giving preferential treatment to Ubuntu (for instance) but rather more importantly they are making a simple statement regarding freedom. I respect your opinion, and your job/salary... I understand all of that. But more important to me than my salary... where I work... etc,... is that freedom comes first. Some of us work towards a list... its not lame, and its not foolishness: No closed / proprietary software, period. No closed formats... MP3, Flash, etc No closed exclusionary deals No coercive marketing tactics... I'll make you a bet... you break the pact with M$ and whalla... it will be front page news on Slashdot... probably for days... and then followed by a clean review of 10.3a and why Suse is the better way to go (vs Ubuntu) for newbies.... blah blah blah.... Frankly a lot of folks are still trying to figure out how they feel about it... now, you may feel that Slashdot is irrelevant now... but who cares what capitalism thinks about free expression... on the other hand... you might want to consider that free expression can benefit the right capitalist who puts her/his money in the right places... and putting Novell money with M$ was a mistake that will have ranging consequences. (two cents) (if you want to talk about it, please don't swear at me, thanks) Best to you and yours.., -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org