An item protesting against the adoption of OpenSUSE was submitted to Digg.com yesterday. It gained votes at a pace that is far more than sufficient to make the front page. After personal insults and many 'bury' calls from the usual suspects, the item got buried.

I was hoping that none of the announcements of the release of OpenSUSE 10.3 would not reach the front page of Digg.com, but the SUSE community had its way and it also plugged in some positive comments to the item which received high visibility.

That's a shame. If you watch the comments in about 10 submissions announcing the release, you would see that a great (and vocal) majority dislikes this deal, which puts developers at risk unless they join the Novell 'protection racket/cartel'.