On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:17, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > 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
There's not even a mention of thier sources so you can check on thier veracity... That not bad journalism.... It's simply not journalism... Jerry P.S. Gees, who would read a rag like that? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
