Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Nov 2006 15:08 UTC
OpenSUSE 10.2 Beta 2 has been released. "I'm glad to announce the second beta of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. It contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. For Beta 2 we updated to OpenSync 0.20 and would ask for some testing by the community. We have prepared some testcases for specific mobile devices, like mobile phones which synchronize with SyncML, IrMC and other protocols. The testcases also include simple connection tests for Palm Devices. We would really appreciate any help and hopefully many success reports."
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Novell is not an open source company. They are just a company. They happen to have bought a company that packages an open source product, but the business logic behind that was initially as a vessel for selling their Netware, eDirectory, etc. on operating system "turf" that wasn't completely controlled by Microsoft, since Microsoft has traditionally not done a fantastic job giving Novell the knowledge and resources to let it compete against themself.
This is exactly the issue. Novell took over Suse and promised "we'll be good members of the open-source community, we won't let our Suse customers down, we believe in cooperation between distros, look at us, we're open sourcing our products!" And now it turns out that this whole "transformation" was nothing but one big sham. If you want to see an example of what a proprietary software-turned open source company SHOULD look like, look at Sun. They're staying the course and opening up more and more things and cooperating with other companies, rather than setting themselves up as an ally of MS against all other open-source players. (Admittedly, they have their hardware business to back them up, so it's not a totally fair comparison.) But the point nevertheless remains, the cooperative atmosphere between Suse and other open-source companies will from this point on be largely nullified, which is the total wrong way to go about things.