So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Ben Duncan]

I think it has more to do with the MONO project and the DotNet
and GNU Dot Net than anything. It probably is also a "synergy"
to stop the Oracle announcement of supporting RedHat Linux
directly, which would put a crimp in SQL Server sales.

 From what information I can gather, M$ is going to put support
dollars into the MONO project and the GnuDotNet. They already (M$)
have paid for a REAL GOSH DARN working Python into the DotNet
environment called IronPython, and it is left completely open
sourced - amazingly ! They also did some support work on getting
GTK, called GTK# working as well.

Anyway, not being a MS fanboy myself, and having just got started
into the this "DotNEt" craze me-self, I am begrudgingly going to
give a tip 'o the hat to it. The ideology seems to be sound, and
it seems to be one place the (M$) seem to be willing to play fair -
at least for the time being.

The darker side of me thinks that they are doing all of this to let
it develop, support it as much as they can, then turn the good idea's
and applications into a "ASP" models that they then will rent BACK to the
BROADBAND consumers/Businesses so they will have a recurring source
of income. Kinda like Cable TeeVee, but for the software industry.

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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