The irc log I posted last week was my most commented post ever!. Credits go to Will to save that log for so many years.
Corruption Perceptions Index 2006 shows Chile in number 20 in world’s most transparent countries. In 2005 the country was 21th. Far ahead of its neighbours. This year we are again ahead of countries like spain, and this year we surpassed USA in the ranking.
This weekend I got another visit from Chile, the third actually (not counting my family). Pablo was here the while weekend and he liked Nürnberg a lot.
My brother back from hiking in Kalymnos, nice pictures.
Best podcast ever. My hopes to learn german are back!.
10.2 is near. zypp look much much better. YaST faster. User gets feedback. KDE got a updater applet (Google SOC project, now enhanced). I am still wrestling with KIO http-over-unix sockets, to make auth-less communication with ZENWorks daemon to work. The direct system backend works fine.
You can see the lot of press and blogging the deal with Microsoft generated. Just more of the same. This time the FUD is less original.
I don’t like the childish attitude of the community when such announcements happen. It is ok to dislike business moves, and say it, but the speculation goes to a zealot point where news start to be invented and spreaded in a totally irresponsible way. You see a blog “probably the deals is not compatible with the GPL”, and then you see a blog citing that blog saying “Novell violates the GPL so boycott”, each link to one blog to another gets worse.
I am not sure if I like the deal or not. It is to early to see what will it bring. But I do think people has to be careful when spreading fud. Living in countries with free speech sadly you often see people not being responsible from what they say. Last year, when Novell did lot of coporate changes, I was shocked to read in the news “Novell discontinue their entire SUSE Linux branded desktop and workstation product line”. (complete false information). Ok, if now, one year later, you see OpenSUSE, and NLD announced as SLED, still there, more popular, better, and SLED even got the SUSE brand. Will you see a post back from those people. No, you won’t. You will find them trolling with new material and FUD.
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Regarding German: you can also watch the news at tagesschau.de. Requies Real or Windows Media, but I think I was playing the Real stream with mplayer.
“It is to early to see what will it bring.”
Does it matter what it will bring? Isn’t it just unethical? And isn’t that enough reason to boycott SUSE?. Lots of people wrote software and gave it away for free under the GPL license. They choose this license because they want everyone to be able to do with it what they want as long as they give back the changes they make. Now SUSE signs this patent cross-licensing deal with Microsoft which can mean that in the future you can only use this GPL software when using SUSE. This is against the goals of the GPL and the intention of the software writers.
No, it does not mean that, that is what you think it means. Novell and lot of companies want to comply with the GPL. If they did a mistake in some point of the agreement, they will fix it, of course. The GPL is hard to understand for everyone in those points, and the community can give feedback back, in a mature way in order to get everything fixed.
Don’t be that stupid. Novell is also a GPL software author. And of LOT of it, not just a freerider. The agreement is not supposed to mean that.
But you guys immediately react like cry-babies attitude, and start boycotting and spreading FUD. But then never take responsibility for the bullshit you spread.
(actually that is exactly what Novell is doing right now, clarifying and answering questions).
Please don\’t complain about FUD, because it\’s exactly what Microsoft and Novell are spreading against other developers and distributions of free software.