[nylug-talk] are we about to lose something?

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Paul Robbins wrote:

> Use only free software.  Do not run any Novell code.  Do not
> agree to any Microsoft EULA.
>
> So I guess I also cannot run anything from RedHat either. It is not all free
> software. In a business environment, there is not always the option to have
> a debian or ubuntu server running financials.  When you can show me the NYSE
> or any wall street bank change their systems over completely to "free
> software", then I might change my mind.

Perhaps you might start a general trading system which uses no
source secret software.

>                                          And even if they switched, it would
> be a customized kernel that they would change in house and not release.
> Linux and free software make for a good base for new technology, but
> avoiding anything that is not "free" will never make it based the business
> directors who make corporate decisions.  I know it comes back to the
> argument between FOSS and OSS and I am not meaning to get into it at this
> time.  Yes the Novell-M$ alliance seems very strange now, and I am not sure
> where it is going to go, but boycotting Novell all together will not solve
> the issue.

No.  But it will help.

ad "never make it past < IMPORTANTBUSINESSDECISIONMAKERS />": Nonsense.

oo--JS.