On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:41:04 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html > > As much as you like to see SUSE dead, I don't see any more chance of > that happening with this new agreement than without it. The guts of it > seems to be to make use of virtualisation technology - well that isn't a > surprising development. I don't see either what Novell is losing there, > but it's winning patents cash and assurance of not being sued by Billy. > In return it can't sue Billy either, oh well as if that was likely to > happen. Having been a SuSE user since the last millenium, I find your comments surprising. I was really enthused by Novell's purchase of the company, being a Novell CNE (amongst other things), after all. The first release of the Novell desktop destroyed the Win 2000 PC I installed it on, despite loads of guarantees of the opposite. Not a good start to the new management. I am sad to see an once brilliant distribution come to this. I used to manage a 4,000,000 mailbox IMAP mail platform ( yes, enough for everyone in this country in one go ) from a single 400MHz Compaq lappie running SuSE. 9 minutes downtime in a year, when we disconnected from the internet when one of the major viruses threatened it ( we fixed it before we were infected ). Sun Microsystems loved me and my laptop with the strange chameleon logo. If I were you, I'd read the press release, and then read it again, looking at the two totally incompatible viewpoints on the GPL especially, and the monies that SuSE will be paying Microsoft, and ask yourself whether this was a good, or even tenable, decision. Yes, I now use debian and ubuntu ( and fedora, centos, freebsd, opensolaris, openbsd, real solaris, ... ), but I think I've made my choice with my eyes open - acknowledging my own personal gonmish preferences, as well. Steve.
