Nope, he's not wrong, unfortunately. Mandriva suffered this fate, and
Suse/Novell are suffering the same fate. It will take a while, but it's
getting there.
You have to realize that just because something is community oriented
doesn't mean that money isn't creeping in somewhere.
Microsoft is starting to give away loads of cash, because they are done
innovating, and don't need to put it into research any longer. These
things go in cycles, unfortunately. ALL commercial companies suffer
this fate.
RP
SOTL wrote:
I was quick to dismiss claims that SUSE/Novell would make the same
mistake as Red Hat and more or less quit having a good stable product
for home and small offices.
Now I'm concerned again though - just listened to Novell Open Audio -
episode: "SLE 10: Top 5 reasons for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10".
In this episode Ted Haeger kindly explains to us the difference
between SLE 10 and "openSUSE" as he's always liked to call it.
Apparently SUSE Linux is a bleeding edge distro, only aimed at Linux
geeks - with only one purpose - namely testing and maturing stuff for
SLE.
Not one word about (open)SUSE being a nice and stable distro that's
supposed to increase use of Linux at home and small offices.
Of course the openSUSE-project description states: "We work together
to create and distribute the world's most usable Linux." I must have
gotten this wrong - I thought we were working together to make
(open)SUSE better - but apparently the Linux-distro we're making
usable is SLE. Nice of Ted Haeger to inform us what's going on in and
around Novell.
Someone please tell me, that this man is _wrong_.
Martin
He is not wrong.
He is oh so very very right.
This is the exact attitude that crashed Mandrake and the Mandrake list.
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