You can try to be as positive as you like about this "deal" houghi,
but in the end you know just as well as the rest that MS is not in
it to make nice with OSS "community" or anyone supporting OSS for
that matter, they're it it to find some way to make themselfs come
out on top.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/11/microsoft_patent_kuhn_warning/
what you are seeing here is blind SUSE and Novell support. Blindly supproting SUSE I can kind of understand. But blindly supporting Novell corp I can't. I will assume that these people were not around or did not bother to dig up all the dirt on Novell when they were the major force in the IT industury and used to bitch slap and swallow any small companies that stood in their way.
what these people fail to understand is that the open source community is much larger than MS or Novell. It they decide to shun SUSE because of them, you will wind up with a dud distro. (i.e. once there are no more good and devoted brains working on SUSE, the distro is up a creek without a paddle)
I for one am not going to spend more money on Novell either, until I
am very convinced that this really *is* a good deal for OSS and
"freedom as in speech".
welcome to the club.
--
jjgitties,
"*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend."
