On Friday 31 August 2007 07:05, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 30-Aug-07, at 6:45 PM, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > And anyway, do notice the fact that quite a few opensuse > > developers contribute > > a lot of good stuff. > > also, for the ordinary user who just wants things to work, Suse, > along with Mandriva are the two distros that really rock. Further > Novell has deep roots in India and a huge support infrastructure, > It,
All the strengths and they go and shoot themselves in both feet. The deal brings Novell in M$ gunsight the moment it expires in 4 yrs. Ifact proly much earlier given that gplV3 adoption is happening a lot faster and Linus who was very opposed now finding it more to his liking. Including closed bits in a distro makes these bits the wealest link in the reliability / maintaiability / performance chain and will reduce a distro to the weakeness of the closed code vendor. In short companies like Novell are bartering away their strength for a weakness in order to gain a very temp advantage. Infact such distros will be an order of magnitude weaker than the closed vendor. Precisely what M$ wants. > along with Redhat are the only two options government and > industry can go for. No other distro offers support in India. In > addition tamilnadu has just installed about 50,000 Suse computers > across the state. These are facts. Live with them - no use spouting > ideology - concretely what are we going to do about this? explain the dangers to anyone who cares to listen. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
