10.07.09
Richard Stallman Explains Why Not SUSE
Summary: In a new interview, Richard Stallman explains the problem with SUSE
From this new audio conversation we have extracted the following part.
Hess: “I believe some have switched to the SUSE distribution cause that was very popular. I think it started in Germany.”
Stallman: “Yes, it did. S.u.S.E. was a German company. The sad thing about that distribution is that it has a lot of non-Free things in it. S.u.S.E. was bought by Novell, and Novell is famous for having signed a pact with Microsoft and it does various things that serve the interests of Microsoft.” █
David Gerard said,
October 7, 2009 at 9:29 am
It’s such a pity, because Novell *started* by freeing up the nonfree bits of SuSE.