Agreed, this is as it should be. I take this as good news, as it proves that an established company (Novell), will pay lots of money for a company that "gives" away its products, in a post-boom economy.
I hope Novell does something something good with SuSE. I don't have much experience with Novell products, but from what I know they at least know how to run a profitable company. SuSE has a great name for itself and this will add to Novell's position in the IT sector. And besides, anything that keeps Ballmer up at night must be a good thing, eh? ;) John Hebert Shannon Roddy wrote: > Well, I was feeling pretty good about Sun's java desktop (AKA Mad > Hatter) of which I ran the demo last week. It is due for release on > Dec. 1st. However it is based on Suse and I am sure it is in some kind > of partnership with them. I wonder now what is going to happen to it. > > I guess now that we have gained corporate recognition and confidence in > Linux, Linux is now going through its "teens" and experiencing growing > pains. > > Shannon > > Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> Woah. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wimprine, Thomas" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:07 AM >> Subject: [Nolug] Poor Joey >> >> >> >> >>> Novell is going to acquire your personal favorite distribution! >>> Yesterday RH announced they are discontinuing support for everything >>> >> >> except >> >> >>> for their enterprise versions, and now this? Whatever happened to the >>> pure >>> Linux company? >>> >>> http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
