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I remember a time in high school when we had a substitute teacher. This teacher was previously retired but still subbed in from time to time. His look on things was of the old school circa 1960...so he ran quite a tight ship and didn’t appreciate any adverse feedback or smart remarks from the students. I never had a problem with him until the day that I chuckled at a fellow classmate who was in a tug of war match with another student over a text book (evidently, one of them stole the other student’s textbook...whatever) and the teacher decided to get in the fray...so here we have 2 students and a teacher pulling on a textbook in three different directions. I laughed aloud...it was silly to see an older teacher and two ‘punks’ as he’d call them pulling on that book.

I was immediately reprimanded and given detention. When I asked what I did, the response was “apparently nothing but you’re going to stay after anyway”. When I pressed harder for an explanation, I was told that since I thought ‘my two buddies’ were funny, I was staying after. I had been caught in a perplexing situation many people, groups and companies find themselves in...I was guilty by association.

I was reading an article at Linux Today earlier and saw this line from the article, which was penned in defense of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (and rightly so...I have no idea why people would call SJVN a shill...he’s the farthest thing from it). I’m not so much concerned with people attacking SJVN so much as I am with the editor’s (it’s an editor’s note) second item that he’s bugged by:

So...people shouldn’t do this. We all know that it isn’t fair...but the main fact is they are doing this and have always done this, just like that teacher of mine in high school. I wanted to understand why people aren’t making the connection that openSuse shouldn’t be held accountable for Novell’s actions...but then it hit me...The technology and code being sunk into openSuse as a test ground will one day make it into the Novell Desktop...which, as part of the now famous deal, will make money for Microsoft.

When you look at it in this logical manner, I don’t blame the people the article is condemning for targeting openSuse and I don’t see how anyone can blame them. How many Linux users out there do you know that want to bankroll Microsoft?

I remember a time in high school when we had a substitute teacher. This teacher was previously retired but still subbed in from time to time. His look on things was of the old school circa 1960...so he ran quite a tight ship and didn't appreciate any adverse feedback or smart remarks from the students. I never had a problem with him until the day that I chuckled at a fellow classmate who was in a tug of war match with another student over a text book (evidently, one of them stole the other student's textbook...whatever) and the teacher decided to get in the fray...so here we have 2 students and a teacher pulling on a textbook in three different directions. I laughed aloud...it was silly to see an older teacher and two 'punks' as he'd call them pulling on that book.

I was immediately reprimanded and given detention. When I asked what I did, the response was "apparently nothing but you're going to stay after anyway". When I pressed harder for an explanation, I was told that since I thought 'my two buddies' were funny, I was staying after. I had been caught in a perplexing situation many people, groups and companies find themselves in...I was guilty by association.

I was reading an article at Linux Today earlier and saw this line from the article, which was penned in defense of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (and rightly so...I have no idea why people would call SJVN a shill...he's the farthest thing from it). I'm not so much concerned with people attacking SJVN so much as I am with the editor's (it's an editor's note) second item that he's bugged by:

So...people shouldn't do this. We all know that it isn't fair...but the main fact is they are doing this and have always done this, just like that teacher of mine in high school. I wanted to understand why people aren't making the connection that openSuse shouldn't be held accountable for Novell's actions...but then it hit me...The technology and code being sunk into openSuse as a test ground will one day make it into the Novell Desktop...which, as part of the now famous deal, will make money for Microsoft.

When you look at it in this logical manner, I don't blame the people the article is condemning for targeting openSuse and I don't see how anyone can blame them. How many Linux users out there do you know that want to bankroll Microsoft?