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Re: KDE System tools lacking
by anon on Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @17:31

to be honest, Novell has taken a lot of ignorant statements because of their deal with microsoft, but if it wasn't for all the hard work that Novell has done, the linux community would be years behind where they are now. It is the hard work of the novell teams that are bringing some amazing features to KDE and to the linux world. I take my hat off to you Novell/opensuse teams, you have truly benefited the linux community more than some people would like to acknowledge.

I've recently decided to try a few other distro's again, all the alpha's and without a doubt, opensuse is still years in front of the competition.

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Re: KDE System tools lacking
by Debian User on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @00:03

The Linux community would be far more advanced if not for uncompetetive behaviour from the competition.

This competition is IBM, HP, Sun. The last of them actually vowed recently to support Linux against Patent attackers with its own Patents.

And that competition is Microsoft who is in standby mode of attacking Linux and doing everything to forbid competition with its products.

The truth of fact is that in make its deal with Microsoft, the only thing Novell did achieve was to weaken the general pressure to open Microsoft information to everybody. The longer that takes, the more beneficial to Microsoft, and Novell let Microsoft buy out of that for, granted, a lot of money for its share holders.

I am never going to thank Novell for the buy out. Not for the FUD that it helped spread, and for the idea that patent protection for unspecified patents is needed and worth some money. I am not going to thank them for helping to force smaller Linux companies into deals with Microsoft that hurt their bottom line.

And while your at it. Try out Kubuntu or Fedora with KDE. Those guys did not see a need to help Microsoft out of its anti trust problems with EU, because those are well deserved.

That said, thanks for the good things people at Novell do. But I am not going to put up good things against bad things. If an entity does evil or helps evil, it can no longer pay through other deeds and get to heaven. Not even in Church anymore. Even there you have to regret.

Yours,
Kay

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Re: KDE System tools lacking
by reihal on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @02:27

You "forgot" to mention Mandriva.

Look at the commits, Brazil + France = Mandriva.

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Re: KDE System tools lacking
by Debian User on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @04:39

Thanks for the addition, you are right. They too were clear about not conspiring against the users.

Yours,
Kay

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