Comments on: The Ill Effects of Software Patents on Font Rendering

By: This is all ridiculous!

This is all ridiculous! — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:57:04 +0000

Oh c’mon!
You said in the article that UBUNTU DISTRIBUTES TRUETYPE TOO!
The site says BOYCOTT NOVELL, NOT BOYCOTT UBUNTU!

Also, although they failed miserably, Novell was trying to do something good for the linux community when they “signed the treaty”. Note that Microsoft is now targeting Novell SUSE linux explicitly in their attack-ads. I don’t think that the decision Novell made was right, but Novell has done a lot for the linux community. Proprietary Software on Linux is a bad thing, but right now it is somewhat needed because if the average WinDo$e user found out about Linux and it DIDNT support their favourite flash sites, java, fonts, etc they would laugh and call us linux users n00bs and keep on funding Bill Gates’s retirement. Novell is trying to make linux more comfortable for Microsoft users.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:34:51 +0000

I was under the impression that SUSE (maybe I got confused here with SLES/SLED) had some proprietary bits because there was a discussion about this in Ted Haeger’s blog last year. It revolved around some people’s desire for a more Fedora-like set of applications. Also see:

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/10/opensuse-survey-commercial/

Either way, thanks for pointing that out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:55:56 +0000

> later pointed out that proprietary software may be included in out-of-the-box Opensuse.

You’re such great disclosure journalists. NOT!

Breaking news: the boxed openSUSE contains and has for long proprietary software. Same for the openSUSE download DVD (eg Flash, RealPlayer, Opera).