Posted by: Anonymous
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on December 19, 2008 10:23 PM
I've got nothing against the individual developers of "open" SUSE if they work for Novell (the economy's tough, folks need jobs). But I'm not coming anywhere near AnythingSUSE any more than I go near MS Windows, i. e. it's a very, very rare ocurrence.
I'll stick with distros whose leaders haven't made anti-GPL toxic patent deals with Microsoft, thank you. That means Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, *Ubuntu (Canonical didn't sign that patent deal), Mandriva ("We will not go to Canossa!"), Yellow Dog, etc. But not SUSE. Not until Novell un-does that treachery against us that they did. The BSD folks don't like the GPL--OK, fine. That's an honest difference of position. But they don't try to attack and undermine it with patent deals like Novell did.
Folks, we don't need Novell or their distro, "open" or not. We've got tons of other excellent distros available to us.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 151.188.247.104] on December 19, 2008 10:23 PMI'll stick with distros whose leaders haven't made anti-GPL toxic patent deals with Microsoft, thank you. That means Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, *Ubuntu (Canonical didn't sign that patent deal), Mandriva ("We will not go to Canossa!"), Yellow Dog, etc. But not SUSE. Not until Novell un-does that treachery against us that they did. The BSD folks don't like the GPL--OK, fine. That's an honest difference of position. But they don't try to attack and undermine it with patent deals like Novell did.
Folks, we don't need Novell or their distro, "open" or not. We've got tons of other excellent distros available to us.
--SYG
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