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YaST to Become Open Source

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the changes-of-heart dept.

Space_Soldier writes "According to News.com, YaST is going open source: 'For years, SUSE has considered its YaST (Yet Another Setup Tool) software for installing, configuring and managing Linux an advantage over its competitors and forbade them from incorporating it into the products they sold. But with the new plan, to be announced Monday at Novell's Brainshare conference, the company will release YAST under the GPL, sources familiar with the plan said.'" Several years ago, when I first used YaST, I found it to be superior to the rest of the all-in-one administation tools around at the time. It was generally regarded as a great program, save for the licensing. Today, that's no longer a concern.

8 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Well fuck you too cowboy neal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Some of us still prefer it

  2. Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's sad that SuSE has given into the fascist GNU zealots. *sigh* Another win for communism :(

  3. I SHOOT HEROIN AND RAPE UGLY NIGGERS EVERY NIGHT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    adsfa

  4. Pernicious by Z4rd0Z · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From the article:
    ...YAST's current license carries prohibitions on distribution: "Distribution of the YAST program, its sources...and the works derived thereof for a charge require the prior written consent of SuSE Linux," according to the license.

    Bruce Perens, who helped write the Open Source Definition and is an open-source advocate, described the permission provision as "pernicious" in an interview.

    Let's see here...
    $ dict pernicious
    Pernicious \Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies
    destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. {Nuisance},
    {Necromancy}.]
    Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very
    mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
    For god's sake, will someone fire Bruce Perens and the other whacked out leaders of the Open Source/Free Software movement? I love open source software, but can we please have some reasonable people speaking for it, once?

    Now mod me the fuck down, zealots.
    --
    You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
  5. Re:U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nope. The nips control Canada!

  6. YASUN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yet Another Stupid Unix Name

  7. Re:Gets my thumbs up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You really just don't get it, do you? I'd explain, but it's kind of funnier leaving you in your state of ignorance.

  8. Great, another Gen2 homo. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Long Live Gentoo!

    Shut the fuck up, zealot.