The point that people are making and that we are going round and round about is that this article is written as if Novell is the only distro producer whod does this when it has been shown that others do it as well. Having a double standard of making it seem Novell is wrong when they do one thing and other distros are right when they do the same thing is dishonest. It is irrelevant as to whether this site is only about Novell or not.

By that logic, it is improper to say that Windows is not secure because Linux gets some patches sometimes too.

Not quite.

By that logic, it would be improper to point and laugh at Windows for security failings if the exact same number of critical issues were found in the same month

We’re at the root of the question of “double standards”, which you’ve demonstrated you either don’t understand or condone. You don’t say “Alice sucks because foo” when standing next to Bob and Carol who also foo – it makes you look, well, bad.

Sigh.

The entire post is distorted, in an effort to make it appear Novell employing people who work on openSUSE (specifically in community management roles) is out of the ordinary or wrong.

People have attempted (and seemingly failed) to hammer home the point that EVERY major distro does this – and both the other commercially-backed distros have paid staffers who do EXACTLY the same thing as Novell did here.

Except in whatever passes for reality here on BN, when Red Hat does it it’s fine, and when Novell does it there’s “pressure” or “pushing”

If you don’t understand why you’re in the wrong, then you’ll never understand just what it is that makes BN such a failure as a resource

Reality distortion on one’s payroll is propaganda under a softer name.

So under whose payroll do you distort reality?

He’s talking about changing the world, not ignoring reality.

Reality distortion on one’s payroll is propaganda under a softer name.

–Richard Stallman