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Novell's Chris Stone at the MySQL Users Conference
An anonymous reader writes "According to the MySQL User's Conference page, Chris Stone of Novell, the guy behind Open Source at Novell who was responsible for the purchase of SUSE and Ximian, will be speaking at the MySQL conference. Perhaps we finally get to see what Novell is planning to do with Linux?" (That conference is taking place in mid-April, in Orlando.)
Who's the idiot? They're talking about AD.
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So then it is essentially still proprietary becaause unlike other oper source applications anyone can use it.
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I guess you wanted to say that it is still proprietary because unlike open source not anyone can use it, right?
(Which is not correct, since everybody can use it, but nobody except SuSE can sell it for money)
I bet RMS would disagree with your view on what is truely free and open source.
I can't find the phrase were I said that it is truly free and open source. I just stated what is effectively allowed and not allowed in the Yast license and even acknowledged that that might qualify for the software to be proprietary (I don't know the exact definition when something is proprietary, so I can't give a definite answer)
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Yeah, I am sure that would hold up in court. Ummm yor honor even though we are selling a Linux distro and we include Yast as the installer it is not actually being sold to the customer. We are selling a product only after a few tracks on the CD. In addition we modified it, so it is not completely like the original Yast.
What are you talking about? Of course it is not allowed to sell a Linux distribution what contains Yast as the installer, that's the whole point of the license. You are only allowed to give it away free of charge, regardless whether you have modified it or not. But that doesn't change that they do a lot for the open source community.
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Your cheap jab is indicative of what a moron you are.
Sorry, but insults are no substitution for arguments. Your other comment left to me the impression that you see Novell buying SuSE as two somewhat suspicious companies teaming up to exploit the open source community. You had the opportunity to clarify this point, but you choose to miss this one.