Comments on: irc log comments, chile, zypp applet, podcasting german, internet fud http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141 homepage Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: thebluesgnr http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-3038 thebluesgnr Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:36:06 +0000 http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-3038 <p>Please don\'t complain about FUD, because it\'s exactly what Microsoft and Novell are spreading against other developers and distributions of free software.</p> Please don\’t complain about FUD, because it\’s exactly what Microsoft and Novell are spreading against other developers and distributions of free software.

]]> By: duncan http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-2909 duncan Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:19:45 +0000 http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-2909 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>(actually that is exactly what Novell is doing right now, clarifying and answering questions).</p> 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).

]]> By: David http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-2715 David Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:01:30 +0000 http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-2715 <p>"It is to early to see what will it bring."</p> <p>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 <em>everyone</em> 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.</p> “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.

]]> By: Joseph http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-2675 Joseph Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:27:49 +0000 http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/141#comment-2675 <p>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.</p> 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.

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