__/ [ R S Prigan ] on Friday 03 November 2006 18:38 \__
> Unruh wrote:
>
>> RINGO <ringo.lefrak@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>Looks like the SOB's at Novell have sold Linux's future down the river.
>>>Get ready for the greedy executives to pump and dump the stock as
>>>Microsoft absorbs Novell and then destroys it.
>>>It looks like Linux is doomed.
>>
>> What are you talking about? Novell does not own Linux. If Novell goes by
>> the board, and SUSE dies there are still another 1000 distributions out
>> there of Linux on whom this would have no impact.
>
> I must admit, one of my first thoughts was "move everything to Debian."
>
> Still, "Novell does not own Linux" ... and if they screw up, *Novell* will
> die, and SUSE will be resurrected as NewSUSE!
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/
Scroll down a bit.
> I'd feel better if Novell made some arrangements in their "will" though!
Quick! Grab that shovel. Novell SUSE will become SuSE again... control
returned to the community.
I am not surprised that IBM is pleased with the move. It is them after all
who helped Novell acquire SuSE. IBM has the same inner conflict as Novell.
They both have a trail of dependencies on that legacy Windows stuff... which
makes some portion of cash flow in the interim (transition to Open Source).
The only ones we can trust are Red Hat whose roots are Linux. Not too sure
about Canonical, but at least Oracle isn't sitting on their hands.
Best wishes,
Roy
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