Jim wrote:
> I can see a SuSE fork coming
I was going to say "OpenSuSE", but then it's as tightly bound to
Novel, as Fedora is to Red Hat.
> and Novell are going to be left out of the loop.
Very recently I got pissed off about certain "new" policies at Fedora,
but then along comes Novell with this crap and really puts things in
perspective - makes the nasties at Red Hat look trivial by comparison.
AFAIAC SuSE is now no longer a viable Linux solution ... it's been
tainted by Microsoft, in more ways than one. Novell is finished in the
Linux business, IMHO.
> Shame, really, it really is one of the best Joe Sixpack
> distributions out there.
To be absolutely honest (and yes I have said this before now), I never
liked it that much. Too much bloat, mainly, but also just the fact
that Novell bought it was enough to put me off. I didn't like it when
they bought Ximian either, a particularly nasty hardball maneuver
... little more than a disguise, like a pig in lipstick.
Of course to some, they will be forever heroes for duking it out with
SCO, and for slightly lesser things like Xen, and their official
status as martyrs over Netware, but to me it'll always be just another
commercial entity looking to stuff more IP into it's portfolio,
regardless of the consequences.
> Losing corporate backing from a company such as Novell is likely to
> hurt a lot.
Not nearly as much as sleeping with the enemy, I'll wager.
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K.
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