Nat Friedman: "Flamewars are part of the community culture"
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| derStandard.at: Given the strong negative reactions lot's of people
| in the community showed to the Microsoft deal, do you think it'll
| get more difficult for Novell to get their stuff upstream?
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| Nat Friedman: I haven't seen that until now, I mean there have
| always been flamewars in the Linux community, it's part of the
| community culture. Sure there are consequences for Novell in the
| community resulting from the deal, we have seen that, but not in
| the respect that someone says "Well, Novell as a business did this
| agreement with Microsoft, so we won't accept their patches". And
| most of that negative sentiments don't seem to come from the
| people who accept patches anyway, they come from people who have
| a sort of "professional commentator" role in the community.
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