Nevertheless, unless something has changed since I last checked, Novell is the main (sole?) sponsors behind OpenSuse, and Novell does have a very poor record when it comes to free software.

Far from suggesting that the Ubuntu community council should turn down the offer, I still think that the difference in philosophy between a “free-as-in-spirit” distro like Ubuntu and a “free-as-in-license” distro like OpenSuse are worth being underlined and discussed (maybe directly there?).

Again: it is not about bragging about a supposedly “higher purity of principles” or trying to be unkind towards our host. It’s just that the very concept of borders implies the concept of different countries, and my way of imagining a “cross-border event” is not that of an event that cancel or hide differences, but that of an event where these are explored, examined, compared… for each “country” to acquire a fuller perspective of themselves, but also for the general public to get a better, more informed picture of the world “out there”.

So: while I am glad to see this invitation, I would also expect the Ubuntu “delegate” to strongly advocate – also in that forum – for those values that Novell’s involved with the project has partially undermined for OpenSuse.

Have a nice conference!

I don’t believe I’m syndicated on Planet KDE, so me blogging it won’t reach that audience. Please don’t be rude and insulting, you’re only demeaning yourself.

I really SHOULD be all about making the Linux pie bigger and not about eating each others pie.

Btw: openSUSE is a FLOSS community and many of the contributors are not payed by the main sponsor. Sure, Novell is a main sponsor but most of the other big distributions have their main sponsors, too.
Andrew Ampers Taylor: I’m not sure if it’s fair to associate the community with things the sponsor has “done” years a go. openSUSE has moved and is still moving into an excellent direction. So please give us a chance and judge us by the things we do and not by the things somebody else has done.

I recall a post on -project so hopefully there will be some participation from Debian as well.