____/ Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday 19 September 2007 10:10 : \____
> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday 19 September 2007 09:10 : \____
>>>
>>>> http://news.opensuse.org/?p=265
>>>>
>>>> Just another example of the "bad" Novell
>>>> Right, Roy? Mark?
>>>
>>> If it wasn't them, it would be someone else (possibly Red Hat).
>>>
>>
>> But it *is* them
>> And they work since *four* *month* with AMD people on this project.
>> That it is now public has to do with the fact that before disclosing it
>> they had to clear up technical and legal things
>>
>> You can't simply shrug it off and ascertain that it "would have been
>> someone else". Because it isn't. And SuSE/Novell have for a long time
>> worked on X and drivers for it. In fact, a large chunk of the existing
>> drivers where done by people paid by SuSE
>>
>> This just to show that your disqualifying Novell for no good reason is
>> somewhat dubious. I don't like the attitude of several "advocates" to
>> partition the linux world
>
> BTW, it is SuSE partly because AMD has historical reasons for working with
> them, as SuSE did a lot of the 64bit-implementation for AMD64. Another
> reason why it is not simply "someone else would have done it"
>
> Here is some more background info
>
> http://egbert-e.livejournal.com/359.html
Fair point. I would still say that the harms they bring outweigh the benefits.
There's no doubt about it -- Novell tries to help Linux too, but some of the
routes it takes are selfish and damaging to Linux /as a whole/.
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