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?


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