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Truth Behind the ClearType/OpenSUSE FUD

Posted by kdawson on from the making-it-clear dept.

Kennon writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at Linux Watch clears up the FUD around Tuesday's Slashdot discussion concerning OpenSUSE, ClearType, and patent deals with Microsoft."

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  1. Wonderful Practice by Rydia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This all shows the wonderful practice of choosing systems based on gut reactions and petty politics. If you think SuSE is not as good as Ubuntu, or Fedora, or slackware, and therefore don't use it, good on you. Choice is great.

    If you switched, or spend appreciable time bashing or advocating a boycott of SuSE because of the Novell/MS deal, you are a moron. I'm sorry. You aren't making any sort of choice based on the merits of the system, just on politics and the fact that you dislike microsoft. The agreement is harmless to "the community." It's an indemnity agreement! That's about the most benign thing two companies could possibly sign.

    The bad part is that the reaction (as we saw here, sometimes humorously disinformed) is unfairly hurting a valid (some would say good) choice in the linux market (choice is good!) and one again painting all of us as petty, politically-driven zealots who care more about bashing MS and anyone who associates with them than what we really are: intelligent people who have made a very smart decision about operating systems. The whole business is thoroughly disappointing.