Víctor Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The spanish website noticiasdot.com has published an article saying Novell > has > decided to kill SUSE Linux:
Don't believe this, as a matter of fact I just released SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 to the mirrors, see the announce mailing list for details. > http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/1105/1711/noticias/noticias_171105-05.htm > > It says: > > "Novell terminates its desktop distribution "Suse Linux" and announces 600 > dismissals > > The Linux comunity is agitated. While the interests of the governments to the > free software world rise, the enterprises that operate in this area don't > find the magic formula to return the investment they've spent. > > Novell announced this week the dismissal of 600 engineers and the stagnation > to some of the most important projects of the company. > > The dismissals affect the development teams of -until now- very important > projects of the firm, who upset to the free software after buying Ximian and > Novell. [Novell bought Novell? Who the hell has written this article?] > > The teams of Evolution, Mono and Hula have been decimated. The dismissals > have > also affected those programmers who worked backing Firefox and in less > proportion to the KDE development team. > > The company officially announced it will stop developing its desktop > distribution and will focus its policy to one license-based > server-market-oriented distribution, competing in this area with Red Hat." > > The article continues but I don't have time right now to translate it. > > Is it FUD or what? Looks like if Bill was putting his hands in this website. > We should really contact noticiasdot.com so that they remove the article and > don't continue creating confussion. Yes, please contact them. You can read at the Novell press side details of what was announced, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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