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Re: The Jackal In The Forest
by she on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @00:33

'A company that took an already excellent but somewhat closed distribution (SuSE Pro), and made it free and its development open to the community.'

I am not in agreement with the original poster at all, albeit for other reasons than you.

But if you are so quickly to name this company's advantage, how about the strategic alliance with Microsoft and the patent clause deal? Do you defend that as well?

By the way, I also think it is wrong to give any company too much power - we see it with the Linux kernel. Those that hire devs get it much easier to see changes in the kernel. Understandable - but unfair to "normal" users just as well.

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Re: The Jackal In The Forest
by ad on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @07:30

No I don't defend that. I wish they hadn't done it.

And I agree. But it's not the case, there are many other big players in the field, plus tons of small ones, plus a huge community.

I think we'll be just fine ;)

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Re: The Jackal In The Forest
by Grósz Dániel on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @13:10

I still haven't read any true argument to who (except Red Het) and why is the deal bad.

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Re: The Jackal In The Forest
by DA on Thursday 10/Apr/2008, @05:56

> By the way, I also think it is wrong to give any company too much power - we
> see it with the Linux kernel. Those that hire devs get it much easier to see
> changes in the kernel. Understandable - but unfair to "normal" users just as
> well.

That is just totally untrue. Read the report in the link below specially the section about "Who is Sponsoring the Work"

https://www.linux-foundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php

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