Comments on all mine!: Deathstar User Group at CLS

It's OK to not (want to) understand my point P...

2011-09-26T13:40:32.122+02:00

It's OK to not (want to) understand my point Pawel, I hope you won't mind if I won't try to repeat it ;-)

I do find the 'novell' stab a bit low. First of all, I say what I think here, not what my employer wants. Second, I don't work for Novell but SUSE.

I agree the secure boot thing is indeed quite an evil thing. Not much different from what many mobile phone vendors do, unfortunately. Don't use locked down devices or semi-open stuff like Android if you can avoid it!

The problem is MS isn't the rock, but it's...

2011-09-22T15:21:41.477+02:00

The problem is MS isn't the rock, but it's a giant that throws rocks. If he does this intentionally or accidentally (which is doubtful, but may happen sometimes) I don't care. It's enough to check it's relationship to Linux and FLOSS projects that matter and which doesn't use proprietary friendly licenses like bsd. You're from Novell which is nothing more than pro MS company, so I can understand your leaning toward the giant. I explained why MS is evil and you didn't explained why they shouldn't be called like that. Here's another example of being evil and untrustworthy and it's a big rock this time:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Community-fears-Windows-8-Secure-Boot-will-block-Linux-1347997.html

@Pawel Ask yourself this. If you get a rock trown ...

2011-09-22T12:09:39.487+02:00

@Pawel
Ask yourself this. If you get a rock trown at your head, are you angry at whomever trow the rock, or at the rock itself?

A company is more like a rock - it doesn't have evil intentions. Doesn't mean it might not do evil stuff on occasion, but it doesn't do those things just to be evil. It just happens to be the outcome of political and social structures and processes. Sometimes you can point to specific people, sometimes not.

I'm sure the average CEO has a lot of influence on how 'evil' his/her company is, but even they don't always play all the cards. And people leave, people join - a company under new management can be completely different.

All in all, I won't dispute any "$company is evil", I'm only saying it doesn't MEAN anything. Like saying the rock is evil for breaking your skull...

There's no single reason to NOT hate Microsoft...

2011-09-22T10:30:59.605+02:00

There's no single reason to NOT hate Microsoft. It's not only about their closed development model, because they're free to develop the way they want, but it's about their MONOpoly, patents and FLOSS and Linux hateres.