On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:26 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ ed ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 21:32 \__
>
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:18:19 -0500
>> Geico Caveman <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/18/1838229.shtml
>>>
>>> Time to reject any patches or code coming from Novell or its employees
>>> ?
>>>
>>> This deal sounds more and more like SCO with improvements. SCO failed
>>> because they could never point to a piece of code and prove it was
>>> stolen.
>>>
>>> I think that Microsoft is making up for that mistake by using their
>>> new great friends at Novell to do the planting for them. Months later,
>>> when the offending code has made its way into most distros, Microsoft
>>> will swing in with the just cause.
>>>
>>> I said precisely this a few days ago in my response to John "Novell
>>> uber alles" Bailo.
>>>
>>> Its time to cut Novell off before they succeed in planting any bombs
>>> in Linux kernel / app code.
>>
>> but as i think roy said recently, the moment they do that it's SCO stage
>> 1, prove that there is stolen code. how can they do this? and if they
>> saiy "Noel Power" submitted code, then it's svn rollback time and remove
>> that diff, svn export and repackage (after a clean build of course).
>>
>> if they cannot suggest what code is stolen then there is no case.
>>
>> and besides all this. people are going to move away from novel's linux
>> in droves, hopefully to something better like debian. where politics is
>> more important, the chances of this stuff going unnoticed is less likely
>> to make it into the stable branch.
>>
>> besides all that, i prefer the OO.org macro language.
>
> Having just read a certain article, I think I now see where it all
> began...
>
> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1726205&from=rss
>
> See the comments. Someone must have read it and sent it to Slashdot, but I
> haven't checked this carefully. Like you say, people will be going in
> droves where 'politics' comes before money (if money is involved at all).
> I really hope that a fork which is backed by many active developers comes
> out of SUSE soon. I want to stay with SUSE but say goodbye to Novell. I
> feel bad for SUSE developers whom I know... they did nothing wrong, but
> that management is completely out of touch.
This is a "me too" post:-)
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