So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Net Llama!]

Agreed, I don't see how MS benefits from this at all, other than the long 
term goal of destroying Novell.  Obviously Redhat would benefit there, but 
I think the benefits would be shortterm, as MS would then have one less 
Linux company to destroy.

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/y7rcmb
>
> So, Novell has sold out. I don't see how this makes good business sense in
> the long term, except perhaps for Red Hat. You don't make deals with
> Microsoft, because they'll find a way to to weasel out of it. Novell, of
> all companies, should understand this well. Are memories so fscking short?
>
> This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind
> has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now
> it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell.
>
> I'm sure it is only coincidence that both companies are Utah companies.
> Strictly speaking, Novell is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
>
> Begrudgingly, Red Hat and Fedora have another customer.
>
> Kurt
>

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