On Sunday 26 November 2006 02:22, Benjamin Rosenberg wrote: > On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 10:55 -0600, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > >> so do tell, what is this list for then? > > > > Discussions about suse/novell linux. In my opinion, discussions > > about the > > future of that is more or less on topic, even if I dislike the tone of > > some of them. > > > > Complaining will not make them go away, but rather, will increase the > > number of disccusions and the noise. > > After close to 9 years on this list and hundreds of thousands of > emails answer and sent .. I find the deal between SuSe (I'm an old > fart, so leave me alone) and Microsoft VERY relevant to the future of > what I will support and use. I remember quite well Microsoft crushing > my beloved OS/2 with their bull**** and FUD. I don't want it to > happen again to Linux. Believe the PHB's out there pay more attention > to Microsoft paid pundits there we would believe. If they start > seeing stuff like what Ballmer put forth .. they will shy away from > Linux. This we can NOT have. So if Novell makes bad decisions that > could effect my livelihood .. then by damn I want to know what they > are. And if Novell has to be relegated to a bit player in the > computing world .. so be it. It's not about SUSE, SuSE or SuSe .. > it's about Linux and other GNU software. > > Not one person here can accuse me of being a Chicken Little or having > an agenda. I've used SUSE since 4.1 and even worked for SUSE in > Oakland. I want them around just as much as anyone else, but I won't > have their parent company making shit decisions that in danger Linux. > All Microsoft has to bloody do is release their specs for things such > as SMB, NTFS and other such things .. the FOSS developers will do the > rest to make them work together better. We don't need an "agreement" > for better operability .. that crap. > > Anyway. The deal that Novell and Microsoft signed is very much ON > topic. And if you people want to get back to the way this list was .. > I'd agree that actually answering questions instead of RTFM or check > the archives would be the way to go. This list hasn't been very great > for information in quite a few years. I wish we could have it back, > but I doubt that will happen. > > - Ben >
Thanks, Ben. you saved me from typing all that! 100% agree. I will continue to run SuSE on many servers (no way to migrate that fast, these are production servers), so I will stay here for a longer while. But playing with MEPIS on one notebook now to test it. Well, SuSE is better IMHO, but the difference is not too big. I might be able to live with it. At least the apt / synaptic stuff works and works fast. Oh well, I'm not happy at all about this situation :-( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
