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Mark Shuttleworth Tries To Lure OpenSUSE Devs

Posted by Zonk on from the trolling-for-talent dept.

polar_bear` writes "A lot of developers are angry at Novell for its deal with Microsoft, but is it fair game for other vendors to try to capitalize on dissatisfaction with Novell? Apparently, Mark Shuttleworth thinks so. Shuttleworth sent an invitation to the openSUSE developers list inviting developers 'concerned about the long term consequences' of Novell's deal to participate in Ubuntu Open Week and consider jumping ship to Ubuntu. OpenSUSE and Ubuntu developers are not amused."

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  1. Microsoft developer community? by feranick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not targeting many Microsoft developers instead? That would help everybody in the FOSS community.

  2. New distro by thedarknite · · Score: 5, Funny

    If any number of them were going to jump ship, wouldn't they just create a new distribution. They could recruit people from the Fedora team, Trustix Secure Linux, and Ubuntu.
    I'd call it STFU linux.


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    1. Re:New distro by mackyrae · · Score: 2, Funny

      One of my friends wants to make STFURMS Linux and make it a Linux/BSD hybrid thing.

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    2. Re:New distro by lixee · · Score: 5, Funny

      The new FOSS motto: "Everytime you buy a SuSE product, a baby gecko dies!"

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    3. Re:New distro by cralewyth · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mod parent up!

      +1 ~ missed joke completely.

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  3. blog quote made me lol by bunions · · Score: 4, Funny
    Stuff like what Mark did is simply not done.

    his emphasis

    Ok, there's two, warring stereotypes here. First:

    Did anyone else picture that being posted by Sir Fauntleroy Etherbottom III directly after his monocle flew right off into the crumpets?

    "I dare say, this Shuttleworth fellow is the worst kind of bounder. This sort of thing is just not done!"

    Second:
    "Stuff like what Mark did"

    Ok, Cletus, simmer down! Y'know cousin Mark ain't been right lately, not since his ol' smell hound done up and runned off.

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  4. Desktop Wars. by camperdave · · Score: 2, Funny

    it looks like Gnome is winning the desktop wars.

    Oh great! I just switched to KDE. That just figures.

    P.S. I'm glad you said the number of KDE users outweighed the number of Gnome users, and not KDE users outweigh Gnome users. I'm a little sensitive about my excess poundage.

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  5. Re:Open is not an invitation to be a jerk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Moral rights are subjective things"

    I'm sure Novell would agree with that.

  6. STUFAD by Kristoffer+Lunden · · Score: 3, Funny

    He was referring to Shut The Fuck Up And Dance, the new Monkey Boy distribution that is better equipped than any other to take over the DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS and ultimately win the war against Microsoft on MS' own terms by embracing and extending the Redmond tactics as their own.

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  7. Re:What's the problem? by pudro · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess we just see things differently. I say tomato, you say, "OMGWTFBBQ! That guy disagreed with someone, he sux!!!11!11!!one"

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