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This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE

Posted Nov 28, 2006 8:11 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE by vblum
Parent article: Novell's IRC session on the Microsoft deal

Partially I think it is the personalities. Andreas Jaeger was never very loud. There are other much more .. vocal members of the SuSE Linux team, but they may not have been vetted for this irc meeting for the same reasons.

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Posted Nov 28, 2006 8:41 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Maybe they just didn't have time to attend, or just didn't want to. It is after all a very uninteresting topic for an engineer.

And don't forget: in reality it is a purely American/Japanese topic, as Microsoft could not inforce any software patents in Europe.

This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE

Posted Nov 28, 2006 9:12 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]

Errr ... in what world would those SUSE developers live? This Novell-MS agreement and its fallout would seem to have direct consequences for the professional careers of everyone involved, no? (regardless of how it plays out in the end)

Also, may I humbly suggest that this is not an America/Japanese topic. The reality is that software gets written in Europe with American / Japanese laws in mind - it would be supremely impractical to settle for software that is (temporarily) legal only in a part of a completely interlinked world. Americal software patents affect us directly here in Europe, already today.