[ug-bosug] Some thoughts on Simon Phipps defense against Novell

[S h i v]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
>  http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=357
>
>  Just a nit pick: Simon says that "We ship a completely free piece of
>  software that anyone can download and use without any restrictions.".
>  I think that SXDE/SXDE/Solaris is free for download and use, but that
>  depending upon which particular download one takes, all the source and
>  the distro assembling code and resources may not be free or even
>  available.
>

It is in the popular press and lacks detail.
Hovsepian's comments (http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/njl/?p=197)
are coming from a person utterly uninformed or from a person trying to
mis-represent info and to spread FUD. Not worth going into any further
detail than what is posted as a response by Simon (at
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=40871).

-Shiv