Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 06, 2004 01:00 PM
Like most of these other guys I agree....suse is not open source friendly as it should be. Hopefully Novell will change that.
Hope is all you have, Thier V.P. already said they will rethink thier products availibilty on Red Hat machines, so not only is it not open source, its a vender lockin against competition. and you think this company is going to change suse for the better? the plans are to change it for the worse! Novell has to change everything they think of business. why do you think red hat has been #1 so long? being #1 in linux is VERY, VERY hard because the community HATES #1 but red hat survives because they do so much for us nobody else has matched them. Debian does good work as does gentoo but they do not have the money to fund so many projects or just buy a company outright then relese the code as GPL. Personally I think Red Hat is one of the best companys out there for anything. They donate so much they should be labeled a charity orginization.
Where did Debian get the anaconda port? Where did Knoppix get hardware detection? Where did Mandrake come from? Where did Debian get exec-shield from? How did the 2.6 kernel get NPTL taking threading from 2,000 threads to 50,000 threads? Where do these distros get GCC from? Who wrote cygwin?
This is how Red Hat survives by giving back otherwise the "redhat is M$" would run rampant killing off the single largest employer of full time OSS developers.
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Re:The article is on target
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 06, 2004 01:00 PMLike most of these other guys I agree....suse is not open source friendly as it should be. Hopefully Novell will change that.
Hope is all you have, Thier V.P. already said they will rethink thier products availibilty on Red Hat machines, so not only is it not open source, its a vender lockin against competition. and you think this company is going to change suse for the better? the plans are to change it for the worse!
Novell has to change everything they think of business. why do you think red hat has been #1 so long? being #1 in linux is VERY, VERY hard because the community HATES #1 but red hat survives because they do so much for us nobody else has matched them. Debian does good work as does gentoo but they do not have the money to fund so many projects or just buy a company outright then relese the code as GPL. Personally I think Red Hat is one of the best companys out there for anything. They donate so much they should be labeled a charity orginization.
Where did Debian get the anaconda port?
Where did Knoppix get hardware detection?
Where did Mandrake come from?
Where did Debian get exec-shield from?
How did the 2.6 kernel get NPTL taking threading from 2,000 threads to 50,000 threads?
Where do these distros get GCC from?
Who wrote cygwin?
This is how Red Hat survives by giving back otherwise the "redhat is M$" would run rampant
killing off the single largest employer of full time OSS developers.
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