John A. Bailo came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment
ago in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
> Jim wrote:
>
>
>> I can see a SuSE fork coming, and Novell are going to be left out of the
>> loop. Shame, really, it really is one of the best Joe Sixpack
>> distributions out there. Losing corporate backing from a company such as
>> Novell is likely to hurt a lot.
>
> Novell is now the production provider to the Microsoft marketing engine.
>
> Sell SUSE; make money.
>
just a thought: the contract means that now SLED/SLES resellers pay a
Microsoft Tax.
What, you really thought /Novell/ would bear the royalty?
They'll do precisely what other companies do: pass the costs on to the
consumer, and keep the savings for themselves.
Endgame: Novell are likely to lose out in the long run as Linux hunters are
going to pretty much ignore SLED/SLES as a desktop/server solution (unless
they have a real stiffy for it) because it's going to get bloody expensive.
I got my fork: it's called Susie. <g>
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