On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:55, Matthias Saou wrote: > > There is a huge difference between supporting GNU/Linux products and > supporting free software... IMHO Red Hat and IBM are respectful towards and > contribute a lot to free software, but company like Oracle definitely > don't. As for Novell, I can't say, but I hope... time will tell. > > Matthias Sheesh, go back to your history books, folks. Long ago and far away Novell was working on a unified network desktop platform to compete with Windows. A change in CEO happened and Novell decided to try the 'we can be friends' approach with Microsoft. The group that had been working on the desktop platform left and founded ... Caldera (now SCO). Novell let those folks take the work they had done at Novell and some of that got contributed back as OSS in dosemu and all the netware compatibility stuff. Novell could have claimed ownership and deep-sixed that code, but let it go without a fight. Interesting that a change in management at Caldera (now SCO) has made them the ones unfriendly to OSS. - rick -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
