http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3341801
SUSE's chief technology officer said he believes the practice of 'backporting' features from the 2.6 Linux kernel into older versions is a 'bad thing' because it interferes with standardization of the open source operating system.
"During a keynote address at the Real World Linux Conference here Thursday, Juergen Geck also chided industry players to avoid practices that could further fragment open source standardization efforts.
"Geck's comments came just weeks after Novell, SUSE's parent company, offered its YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) systems management tools to the open source community under the widely used General Public License. The move was seen as a bid to improve SUSE's own competitive position--and market position--against its rival, number one Linux distributor Red Hat...
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