When deciding on a new distro take what boycott Novell has to say about OpenSUSE 10.3 to heart. I didn’t look at it this way, but it makes a good bit of sense. This is what Boycott Novell had to say about OpenSUSE:
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- When you use OpenSUSE, you support SLED/SLES, which Microsoft gets a revenue percentage from
- When you download OpenSUSE, you give the impression that Novell’s business is on track
- As soon as you install OpenSUSE, you are most likely installing Mono (in GNOME)
- If OpenSUSE succeeds in gaining market share, then truly open source Linux distributions suffer
- When you choose OpenSUSE, you contribute to acknowledgment of patent infringements in Linux. “
I think Novell has done some good things in Linux interoperability, but at the same time, and being within the beast and knowing what I know about Novell and Linux, I am staying as far away from OpenSUSE as I can. interoperability wouldn’t be an issue if businesses hired intelligent admins and used OPEN STANDARDS. Anywho. I’m glad I work at a Linux shop that uses open standards on an open platform. The “openness” of Novell is simply blasphemy toward free and open source software everywhere. It’s great that you’re building on an open platform, but hiring gnome developers just so you can own gnome’s code is just plain wrong.
