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Posted Aug 15, 2006 8:58 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151)
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

What a suicidal release policy. If RH ever had the market strength to force a proprietary vendor to upgrade, it has just seriously impaired that ability for the future. This is not even about free software or not; it's a simple case of a very bad business decision.

One can only hope (unrealistically?) that Novell (Opensuse) makes a better choice ...


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Posted Aug 15, 2006 19:39 UTC (Tue) by aj (subscriber, #39001) [Link] (1 responses)

> One can only hope (unrealistically?) that Novell (Opensuse) makes a better choice ...

openSUSE 10.2 Alpha3 has just switched from X.org 6.9 to 7.1:
http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=451

Nice!

Posted Aug 15, 2006 19:50 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]

Very encouraging!


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