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[Burns MacDonald]

On Friday 31 May 2002 06:55, dep wrote:

> first, did you know that your machine is telling the world that it is
> july 26?
>

Ooops, brand new install of SuSE 8.0 Pro two days ago - forgot to set date. 
Thanks.

> second, rms has weighed in:
>
> http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=83
>
> he sounds just a tad cranky about it all.

I'm not surprised and, on this one, I tend to agree with him (Agree with 
RMS!!?? Cripes, did I say that??!!)

Ransom pulled the same stunt with OpenLinux and SCO-Linux and has been in the 
doghouse with the Linux development community (and most of their industry 
partners) ever since. Now he's leading the rest of the distros into the same 
tar pit. I've met Ransom - I thought he had more on the ball than this. 

And SuSE... they have been getting rave reviews for their last couple of 
releases and they have a very solid business/industry clientele in Europe. I 
know they were having to make some financial adjustments a couple of years 
ago, but since then they have had a number of successes. Why would they throw 
themselves off this cliff with Ransom?

-- 
burns