Unrest in OpenSUSE Forums
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-05-28 12:27:40 UTC
- Modified: 2009-05-28 12:27:40 UTC
Summary: OpenSUSE departures noted, Novell defends its OpenSUSE trademark
SIGNS suggest that the OpenSUSE project has slowed down. With the departure of one key person (voluntarily) leaves
yet another.
Today, Wolfgang Koller, the founder of former suselinuxsupport.de and one of the three Site Admins of the openSUSE forums, announced his immediate resignation from the OSF staff. I myself feel this as a loss, that is both unexpected and severe. From my perspective, he deserves our respect and appreciation for everything he has done for the openSUSE community and thus this post is dedicated to his person and contribution.
Also in answer to his decision, I myself announced my own immediate resignation from the OSF staff as well.
The author of this post receives many comments.
Some people say that SUSE has not been the same ever since Novell acquired it. Novell thinks differently. Novell even defends its exclusive ownership of "OpenSUSE", the trademark. Looking at
its PR department, they use an article published by Novell staff (Zonker) to justify what they choose to do.
Zonker’s argument is founded on the Four Freedoms outlined by the Free Software Foundation which have nothing to do with the ability to commercially profit from open source software.
Microsoft's pledge to OpenSUSE developers calls them "hobbyists" and says almost explicitly that they are only permitted to work with SUSE as a hobby but not to make money using SUSE. What kind of GNU/Linux supporter would tolerate
that? How could Novell, which accepted and knowingly signed such an agreement?
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Comments
Will
2009-05-28 13:39:13
Too bad. I still think, had Novell not made that deal and put a serious commitment into OpenSUSE, they could easily have been where Canonical and Ubuntu are today.
SUSE still has customers. Notably, I've seen some mostly Microsoft shops that, in cases where they have to run Linux (because no Microsoft product can cut it for the purpose), tend to run SUSE.
But still, it seems like these days most of the mindshare is gravitating toward Ubuntu and Fedora and their relatives (Debian, Mint, Mandriva, Red Hat, etc.)
zelrik
2009-05-28 22:49:32
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-29 13:09:33
And earlier on we got DDoSed again, not that it's likely to be in any way related.
eet
2009-05-29 16:16:02
@lalala: Ha! Thought as much! Would have wondered if he got through with his kind of (non-)understanding of logical argumentation.
Honestly, I suspect Roy has long since forgotten what truth looks like; it could poke him in the eye with a banana and he wouldn't recognize it. :)
lalala
2009-05-30 00:09:32
The only way they know how to respond to someone calling them out is more lies and slander.
eet
2009-06-02 17:39:25
eet
2009-05-29 11:28:15
How's that PhD of Roy's coming along? Must've been over a year since he handed in his thesis.
Is Novell properly boycotted, yet? Man, you've tried so hard, it must be going under any minute now... Oh, wait, they've increased their net profits again! Well, maybe later then...
Has Doyle the Apostate been declared a Microsoft-minion, yet?
Has Moblin been declared the Next Trojan Horse to be smuggled into Ubuntu UNR, yet?
I'd especially care to hear about that PhD...
lalala
2009-05-29 12:42:53
Ha! Great post. Will you be my friend?
DANGER
2009-05-29 13:39:07
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-29 13:42:03
He also came grinning into the IRC session as soon as/exactly when we got DDoSed a few hours ago.
lalala
2009-05-29 15:16:44
"He wants to make me think exactly as he thinks. That’s fascism, my friend." -- You want everyone to think as you think. That's fascism too.
"He wants to make me say SUSE is great, and so is Novell." -- You want to make people say SUSE is evil, and so is Microsoft.
"He wants me to believe he’s also a genius in politics, because he knows better than everybody what neo-liberalism is." -- From what you type on this site and in IRC, you seem to be an expert on everything.
"He keeps on posting and posting again the same defamatory comments, like a broken machinery. He refuses to accept that this blog is owned be me, and my opinions are mine. That’s fascism too." -- You post defamatory comments all the time, like when you call someone a shill for not agreeing with you. You say your opinions are yours. What about the opinions of others? When someone has an "opinion" that you don't like, you resort to defamatory comments (shill etc.)
"Someone who can post 40 comments in just one day (especially in a site that which asked it to go away) truly raises suspicion." -- If eet is raising suspicion for posting 40 comments in one day, then you are raising so much more suspicion because you post much, much more in one day on many sites.
One last thing, it's not like you haven't used proxies yourself before.
lalala
2009-05-29 13:49:29
Boycott Novell has become one of the biggest jokes of the internet.
Myfraudsoft
2009-05-29 16:40:01
lalala
2009-05-29 17:08:52
"I bet Jonathan I. Schwartz and Steve Ballmer take nude sauna sessions together!! Shameless treason! Flail them! We want blood! ;ppp" This is obviously eet poking fun at Roy for blaming everything on Ballmer.
"heh; the no.1 hater and spammer complains that he das been ATTACKED! how droll. roy, your blog is the worst smear-campaign, and mutual wanking-site of self-righteous zealots that I’ve ever seen. don’t complain that somebody fucked you when show people your naked arse!" This is also obviously poking fun at Roy. Considering the smear campaign coming from Boycott Novell, Roy is just asking people to take the site down. In other words, Roy is indeed asking to get fucked (not in the literal sense) when he shows his ass (again, not in the literal sense) on this site.
I don't really get the banana comment. Maybe it's about Roy not looking at what's right in front of him. Maybe it's about Roy refusing to believe the truth, instead making stuff up.
Calling him sexually confused and abusive makes you not better than the guy that called him a homo rapist for not agreeing with what's on this site.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-29 17:21:39
Roy Schestowitz
2009-05-29 17:23:58
lalala
2009-05-29 18:35:45
Consistently a supporter of "eet"? Not including today, I've only posted on this site a handful of times. How is that consistently? I don't even know if I've responded to any of eet's comments before.
Why was your first reaction to see if I'm one of eet's nyms? Is it because you still, after all this time, can't fathom why someone wouldn't agree with you?