So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, ded wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:13:01AM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> Novell has made a Pact With The Devil. (Literally.)
>
>> Microsoft must be having a jolly laugh right now.
>
> I don't imagine Microsoft would do something where a) it didn't reap
> a huge profit, b) hurt linux or c) both.
>
> Greed and company profits aside, what I find most interesting
> though is how are they going to deal with the GPL.

As far as I can tell from the announcement, they aren't going to deal with 
it at all.  This seems to be little more than a means of driving sales 
opportunities for the two companies.  MS can get in the door with 
companies that distrust/hate MS but trust Novell/Linux, and vice-versa.

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