Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 12, 2006 10:28 PM
This kind of scare mongering is worse for Linux and the open source movement than any deal two companies can make!
Novell or the guys over at the openSuse project have in no way violated the GPL. The deal is simply to help provide better support for there respective clients.
Nor have Novell admitted that pieces of Linux violate M$ patents.
You're the same person that keeps posting this nonsense! You say it will be bad for us, you say it will divide us, but you haven't realised that its actually reinforced our perceptions in regards to Microsoft. We are all unified in this respect.
Let's face it, Novell is siding with Microsoft, because they need the money. (It doesn't take a genius to figure that out). Their PR isn't gonna help them.
Just look at the recent approval of OpenXML in regards to Ecma? Guess which company, starting with the letter "N", backed Microsoft's OpenXML?
And guess who is against it? IBM.
Anyone with half a brain knows Novell is a lost cause to the open-community. They have become Microsoft's lackey. Once you do these kinds of deals that directly hurt open-source, you've signed your own death warrant. (in the community's view, you've turned your back on them and have signed a deal with the Devil for your soul...And someday, he'll be back to collect!)
Its one thing to make money from open-source, its another to sign deals that will hurt it.
You have to be utterly clueless or blind to think Microsoft is gonna play nice with open-source. When the opportunity to hurt open-source comes, they will seize it. Steve Ballmer's comments in regards to Linux infringing on MS patents has clearly confirmed this. (Even though Novell tried to distance themselves from Ballmer's comments).
I gave up on OpenSUSE when ver 10.1 hit the servers. And the deal with MS simply reinforced that I should stay away from them and their solutions.
I'm sticking to companies, organisations, and volunteers who actually respect open-source itself. Not hitch a ride from it.
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Re:My experience
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 12, 2006 10:28 PMNovell or the guys over at the openSuse project have in no way violated the GPL. The deal is simply to help provide better support for there respective clients.
Nor have Novell admitted that pieces of Linux violate M$ patents.
You're the same person that keeps posting this nonsense! You say it will be bad for us, you say it will divide us, but you haven't realised that its actually reinforced our perceptions in regards to Microsoft. We are all unified in this respect.
Let's face it, Novell is siding with Microsoft, because they need the money. (It doesn't take a genius to figure that out). Their PR isn't gonna help them.
Just look at the recent approval of OpenXML in regards to Ecma? Guess which company, starting with the letter "N", backed Microsoft's OpenXML?
And guess who is against it? IBM.
Anyone with half a brain knows Novell is a lost cause to the open-community. They have become Microsoft's lackey. Once you do these kinds of deals that directly hurt open-source, you've signed your own death warrant. (in the community's view, you've turned your back on them and have signed a deal with the Devil for your soul...And someday, he'll be back to collect!)
Its one thing to make money from open-source, its another to sign deals that will hurt it.
You have to be utterly clueless or blind to think Microsoft is gonna play nice with open-source. When the opportunity to hurt open-source comes, they will seize it. Steve Ballmer's comments in regards to Linux infringing on MS patents has clearly confirmed this. (Even though Novell tried to distance themselves from Ballmer's comments).
I gave up on OpenSUSE when ver 10.1 hit the servers. And the deal with MS simply reinforced that I should stay away from them and their solutions.
I'm sticking to companies, organisations, and volunteers who actually respect open-source itself. Not hitch a ride from it.
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