Re: I Abandon Suse for UBUNTU - James Pannozzi Will use and develop for UBUNTU!

Johan De Cauwer wrote:

Many SUSE users have reservations about the MS deal. But instead of
abandonning Novell, why not wait this one out? Remember: OpenSUSE - free
as Ubuntu. And after all,

But with a lot of Novell employees working on it. I am sorry, but few sane
Linux people trust a Novell person these days.

1. Novell supports (supported) linux (not only SUSE) real well.

Used to until it decided to sign away the most basic right of open source, a
right that it did not have the locus standi to sign away.

2. Eventually there may be a deal with MS where the other party benefits -
why not now?

To repeatedly try the same thing expecting a different result each time is a
definition of something that I cannot recall right now.

3. The GPL2 / GPL3 issue boils down to changing the rules, but as I
understand it, essentially the MS deal would be worthless. So why bother?

Along with it, Novell's offerings will be worthless as well since they
wouldn't, pending a court case against them about their cute run around GPL
v2, be able to use any GPLv3 projects. Getting behind in versions of
userland (gcc etc.)

Fork, baby, fork.
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