[Ilugc] Forget about MS , work towards a better GNU/Linux( was [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008)

[Atanu Datta]

On Monday 17 November 2008 06:40:48 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2008 12:50:22 am satish wrote:
> > I still wonder why people look upto windows for functionality use cases
> > when contributing to OSS projects ?? this one thing still puzzles me !!
>
> some years ago I used to keep track of the top 10 downloads from
> sourcrforge - and used to find that nearly all of them were windows
> specific software! It is actually the windows users who are desperate for
> free software - linux users are not, because they already have it.
>
> I wonder what boycott novell people have to say about Novell's contribution
> to gnome and to opensuse?

And the kernel? Ignoring GNOME and openSUSE is still sort of possible. But how 
do we boycott the kernel contributions from developers on Novell's payroll?

Best,
Atanu

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