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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2005-07-06
I don't think you "get" what the consequences of Novell's actions could be (yes, it's hypothesizing, but still...) Novell develops OpenOffice, Xen, and Samba extensions which are non-GPL (also Mono, which is GPL but which is dropped from other distros because of fear about patent infringement). No other distros incorporate these technologies (since they're closed-source or potentially patent-infringing). At the same time, MS modified its formats and protocalls in the next versions to ensure that they're just incompatible enough with earlier versions so that they work with only Suse Linux, and no other distros can interoperate any more. Think about the giant blow to the health of the other Linux distros that this would have. Think about how all of the Linux user base would be forced into using Suse, and how this would be a bad, lock-in situation for Linux as a whole. Nuff said.