[BadVista Advocate] Novell and Microsoft

[Alex Launi]

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why not give that code elsewhere? give another distro the leg up on
suse. Wait for GPLv3 of course.

member greenarrow1 wrote:
> Everyone might find this interesting as I sent this to Factory and
> Development Lists
> for OpenSUSE.
> 
> After reading today about Novell just giving Microsoft advanced data
> on virtualization that us developers create without the possibility of
> other SUSE developers seeing it beforehand has turned me entirely
> against Novell, and SUSE.  What Open Source stands for and my belief
> in freedom for software is why I was further developing the virtual
> desktop  With the new kernel version which support virtual desktops
> and my working with it I have just completely deleted all I have done
> which was pointed towards SUSE because I do not want work I do to fall
> into the hands of Microsoft and being patented under their operating
> system.
> 
> The reason why Microsoft pulled their virtual desktop is because they
> cannot get it to work and now I really believe that is one of their
> main reasons to team up with Novell to steal our ideas and place it
> within proprietary code.  I will not do work that is going to benefit
> any company that restricts what one can do on their computer.
> 
> I am sorry to say this as I have been with SUSE from 8.1 and watched
> it develop to what it is today but will not stand by and watch a
> monopolistic company like Microsoft ruin us or take over SUSE with
> Novell's help.  And, please do not flame me as I was once a developer
> for Microsoft so I do know their inner workings.
> 
> George
> greenarrow1
> InNetInvestigations-Forensic
> SuSe 10.2/TriStar/Apache
> GoBoLinux
> 
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