CNET News: Novell Management Tool Going Open Source

“For years, SuSE has considered its YAST (Yet Another Setup
Tool) technology–software for installing, configuring and managing
Linux–an advantage over its competitors and forbade them from
incorporating it into the products they sold. But with the new
plan, to be announced Monday at Novell’s Brainshare conference, the
company will release YAST under the General Public License (GPL),
sources familiar with the plan said.

“By putting YAST under the same open-source license that governs
Linux itself, Novell hopes the program will gain widespread
acceptance as a module used by management software powerhouses such
as Computer Associates International, Hewlett-Packard and IBM,
sources said…”

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