openSUSE holds public IRC Q&A on Microsoft/Novell deal
OpenSUSE project developers held a public IRC meeting at noon EST today to discuss the recently announced and highly controversial Microsoft/Novell agreements. Nat Friedman, chief technical and strategy officer for open source at Novell, fielded most of the questions, with assistance from Andreas Jaeger, openSUSE project manager, and others.
The one-hour session (see the complete IRC log here) was moderated by Henne Vogelsang. Participants were given voice (the ability for their remarks to be seen by everyone on the channel) one at a time, and only while asking a question. The moderation was necessary, given that there were about 200 people on the channel, including individuals working on other distributions.
Following is a lightly edited version of some of the most interesting questions and answers. Questions not answered during the session itself will appear on the openSUSE wiki.
Q: Why was nobody from SUSE technical staff aware of the deal until the last moment?
Andreas Jaeger: I planned to get briefed on the Tuesday before, but was flying at that time. A couple of others were briefed -- and I was briefed finally a few hours before.
Nat Friedman: I was aware of discussions with Microsoft for a number of months. Big companies are often talking to each other, though, and I didn't know if this conversation would go anywhere.
Q: Meaning nobody from technical had anything to do with it or help constructing it? Only got a notice from suits saying, "Hey, we did this"?
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openSUSE Special Meeting 2006-11-27 transcript
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You talk the talk, but do you waddle the waddle?