[Discuss] MS and Novell

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-11-08 09:15-0800 Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert wrote:

> Novell also made sure their free SuSe offering is equivalent to the one
available for subscription, unlike RedHat and was one of the main reasons we
moved to SuSe.

Well I hope you are right, and my gloomy forecast for Novell and SuSe is
wrong.  SuSe has a long and honorable Linux history, and it would be a shame
to see it vanish through Novell ineptitude.

OTOH, it might be good to at least review your exit strategy from SuSe. If
it suddenly goes south you don't want to end up in the position of the last
of the SCO-Unix users. Also remember what happened to Corel Linux just after
Corel made the deal with MS.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
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Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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