____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 19:36 : \____
> waterskidoo <water.skidoo@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On 2007-08-07, John Bailo, Texeme.Construct <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=013001BYESWN
>>>
>>> "Lenovo will be preloading some of its ThinkPad notebook PCs with
>>> Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10"
>>
>> This is great for Linux!
>> I'm sure the Novell haters will be going ahead full steam though.
Not necessarily. Some people condemn this, but I personally do not. It's a tad
unfortunate, but it's an important step nonethelss. Lenovo already has Ubuntu
and Fedora certified for the newest laptop. This means that later on there
will be choice. You will not be forced to pay SLED tax, part of which goes to
Ballmer's bank account.
> You'd be supportive of the cross-licensing deals with Microsoft, then?
> I remain suspicious of your motives.
Some said that Dell would offer SUSE as a choice, but they never did. Remember
that Dell 'joined' the Microsoft/Novell deal, whatever that means (makes you
wonder if they pay Microsoft for Linux behind everyone's back). It happened a
month before they started selling Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
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