On 11/17/06, John E. Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Uh, guys, suse was a _commercial_ enterprise, not a community effort. Novell bought a _commercial_ company, therefore owns that _commercial_ trademark. As do a number of other _commercial_ linux vendors, who have done a great deal of good for linux. And, while it may yet turn out to have been a bad thing, that's not really clear yet. I'm not very optimistic about the Novell-Microsoft situation, myself, but please, let's understand what's really going on here, and hope for the best.
I personally don't think MS will sue anyone. But they are going to put the word out there and make a few people a little queezy about adopting a Linux. I still am in Oliver Stone mode and believe the whole thing is a sham. Hovespian was planted into SUSE by the board to orchestrate the final sale and dismantling of Novell at a decent price. The sooner they fork SUSE the sooner they can get a head start on the project. For all the SUSE fans here, you should be happy of a fork. You will still have a SUSE. I will be first to admit, I have no clue as to how much work and effort is involved in creating a fork of a distro. -- 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." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
