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What about Nat Friedman?What about Nat Friedman?Posted Dec 22, 2006 14:43 UTC (Fri) by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963)In reply to: What about Nat Friedman? by BrucePerens Parent article: Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)
Yeah, SuSE are among the losers and the SuSE folks didn't ask for this. And there's not a thing that I see we can do about it Sorry, that's just not true. SuSE was a proprietary operating system. Not only did it include proprietary software, but it required proprietary software to function (I'm talking about YaST here). Whatever the old SuSE did, people had to accept their decision, as the nature of proprietary software dictates. SUSE is not a proprietary operating system, and that's thanks to Novell. They bought it and released it under a free software license. The entire distribution, including YaST, is now free: if you don't like it you can simply fork it and move on. There is something you can do about it, even if it's just rebranding the openSUSE distribution for the heck of it.
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