Kurt Wall wrote:
> This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind
> has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now
> it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell. I appreciate the openSUSE != SUSE
> insofar as openSUSE is, ostensibly at least, a community project, but
> when Microsoft turns on Novell, _and they will_, I don't want to be
> around to get any on me. So long.

>From the FAQ on the Novell site:
"Microsoft is also pledging not to assert its patents against individual,
non-commercial open source developers"

I wouldn't call that selling the users down the river. Independent of
the fate of Novell the deal will stop worries about MS killing the open
source movement with patents.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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