Now you’ve really crossed the line, mister. By that new banner against openSUSE 11.0 you’re asking for a boycott against a community distribution.

Yeah, I gotta say – I’ve been spending more and more time in Florida and/or offline working on my house, but WTF are ‘we’ doing with a “1 year to live” OpenSUSE banner?

The OpenSUSE community isn’t the enemy, in fact I believe they are being exploited worse than anyone else by the MS-Novell deal, so if anything they are victims.

I’ve urged them to leave Novell behind, en masse, and move to another domain name not explicitly listed in the covenant, but I don’t "hate" them and am always appreciative of their contributions to the greater community.

So, did I miss something here? Novell and Microsoft are the exploitive corporations, not the folks who contribute code and fixes that you and I depend mightily on. We should work to convince them why the patent covenant is bad, and how they can nullify it’s negative effects on the greater community. And, like I’ve said, they can keep the code- it’s GPL.

with the eurotrash name…

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Now you’ve really crossed the line, mister. By that new banner against openSUSE 11.0 you’re asking for a boycott against a community distribution.

you-are-an-asshole.

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You really are amazing, I bet your writing class grade really is F.

If you’ve ever read a newspaper or anything you would know that that looks completey fucking retarded, just like your eurotrash name.

Miguel asking for a public retraction is not a threat, he was asking that you fix your mistake.

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I didn’t see any threats from Miguel after following that link. But that’s not my blog-entry.

But who are you? Surely not Danny O’Brian from the EFF.

and go easy on the disabled people, it’s not considered a valid frame of reference for casual personal slagging off nowadays (“dumb as a spastic” etc)

I just wanted you congratulate on your really adorable argumentation!

Since you are probably to retarded to note it: it is meant in an ironic way!

Wow, the Novell/Suse nuthuggers are in full force today.

Im a distro slut, I jump from one to another and use them all. EXCEPT three. I think we all know which three those are and why I would never touch them. I despise extortion and those people who would put the community in danger for their own needs.

That’s why I think this site is necessary. We often miss one thing or another on the net so the big picture is often diluted. But reading Varghese and Roy reminds us about every little shady dealing that those distros do that put “Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developers” like myself in a precarious situtation.
I think Miguel’s position on extortion, ODF, Mono, Moonlight and others are well known. I happen to think he is wrong and that ALL his work seems to be in support of Microsoft’s strategy. So do many people. While others will be content to suckle at his teat.
Fine. Go ahead but dont expect others to tell you that it tastes good.
Besides, we can call Miguela a douchebag since he’s called people a lot worse

I respect those who respect me and the community. Those like RH, Ubuntu, Mandriva have all my admiration for how they do their business without putting us all at risk.
Those like Novell have all my contempt and if I had time, I would have done a site IDENTICAL to this one. With the same tones of humour, sarcasm and disdain. Its all a question of style. Some people like Seinfeld/Bill Cosby standup and some people like Doug Stanhope/Bill Hicks.

The stench from Novell’s disgusting tactics might not bother some, so be it. But I wouldnt trade Roy’s work and style for anything in the world.
Im sick and tired of the PC mentality where we can maybe, a little… somewhat criticize for a short while but then quickly gloss over.
No.
We need to be able to follow patterns to see that the Novell extortion deal was NOT a one thing deal. Miguel has shown himself to be constantly working at odds with what is good for FOSS.
You might call it smear but that is BS. Just put links to all of his ramblings without any editorial content and you will come to the same conclusion.
It is not Roy who makes Novell/Miguel/etc look bad: its their own words and actions.

Autism *is* bad, that’s why it’s regarded as an illness. Autistic people aren’t bad people, they are just affected by their illness, that’s why they’re called “sufferers”.

If you would like to converse to the autistic man I refer to in my blog post, visit http://members3.boardhost.com/hifive/ and look at the posts made by Steven Wood. The difference is, Mr Wood has a mental illness. The writers for Boycott Novell don’t (well, not as far as I know).

Saying that my post was intended to start a “jihad” is both ridiculous and very offensive. I just told people to vote down BN’s submissions to FSDaily until they start doing some honest reporting. Also, my blog post came after the Linsux one, check out the dates – I didn’t initiate anything. The references are all there, just look for the underlined text. And none of them are just links to my own articles either.

I suggest you re-read my blog post. There are no endorsements of proprietary codecs, unless “The Gstreamer codecs are more reliable than the w32codecs” is somehow saying that proprietary and patended codecs are good. But yeah, re-read the post. It explains everything. Here’s a direct link to it in case you’ve forgotten the URL: http://bigbolshevik.blogs.friendster.com/a_man_and_his_penguin/2008/06/boycott_boycott.html

Either way, it’s pretty clear that under even the most paranoid interpretation 3 people posting on one story who use openSUSE cannot be considered some kind of ‘smear campaign’ or ‘coordinated attack’ as Roy would like to believe.