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An open letter to the openSUSE CommunityAn open letter to the openSUSE CommunityPosted Mar 7, 2009 2:15 UTC (Sat) by Lorenzo (guest, #260)Parent article: An open letter to the openSUSE Community
Exactly why does this publication give any mention of ... that distribution?
It's not that in is not necessarily a bad distribution or doesn't work, but that its parent company made a pack with the Evil Empire and are busy inserting patent encumbered code into what most of us consider open source software. Mono is the problem. It is a trojan horse that threatens any Linux distribution that uses it.
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That ... distribution Posted Mar 7, 2009 3:20 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] OpenSUSE remains a real distribution with a real community of users and developers around it. LWN is not going to try to disappear it just because we don't always agree with Novell. Sorry.
An open letter to the openSUSE Community Posted Mar 7, 2009 3:24 UTC (Sat) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]
> Exactly why does this publication give any mention of ... that distribution?
Possibly because the Editors of this publication consider it more productive to write thoughtful, considered articles analysing the various sides of the Novell-Microsoft deal (e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/235940/) than to pretend it doesn't exist and ban all mention of it?
I might even go so far as to say that the majority of LWN readers greatly appreciate such a stance, as a refreshing change from the usual mindless groupthink of Slashdot et al...
An open letter to the openSUSE Community Posted Mar 7, 2009 11:37 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Find some code somewhere, by anybody, which is provably *not*
patent-encumbered. Go on, I'll wait.
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