I can't wait for this soap opera to end. I hope someone buys them and puts us out of misery. OpenSuSE is a pain in the open source butt. It is the source of Mono and Moonlight and Microsoft's leading front in the open source world. Maybe they will buy it and Miguel de Icaza can work directly for them instead of indirectly as he does now. Maybe then people will see what they have been up to all along. Right now users are confused because Novell does so much kernel work while injecting Microsoft's IP into open source. Microsoft still alleges that we are infringing on their IP without saying what and Mono and Moonlight are a trojan horse waiting for them to open at an opportune time. They also say that only Novell users are protected from using Mono. So please, somebody buy Novell and kill off this pariah of the open source world. We are better off without them as long as they tow Microsoft's line and infect us with Mono and Moonlight and accusations of patent infringement.
The open source community is split over Mono and this serves M$'s purposes. Keeping us divided causes us to lose our focus and weakens us. More and more distros are removing it from default installations and putting it in restricted repositories. Ubuntu for some strange reason is increasing its Mono content at the time that major competitors are panning it. They removed the GIMP saying that it took up too much space, but Mono is far larger and Gnote could replace Tomboy and F-spot is useless. Mono seems to be untouchable in Ubuntu and you have to wonder why. I am not saying make Mono unavailable, just make users responsible for installing and using it instead of forcing Mono on people who have to remove it post-installation. This is wrong minded. It is like installing proprietary codecs and drivers by default and then saying if you don't want them, remove them. On 10 April 2010 00:05, hard wyrd <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that Novell's time is near to become the next company to be put up > on sale. > > What do you think will its net effect to Linux as a whole considering that > a lot of its IP is directly or indirectly affecting Linux? > > -- > Penguin, penguin, and more penguin. > > Believe that within the brain is a brain, and within it another brain, and > so on and so forth. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
