[plug] Novell buys out SuSE

[John Knight]

I simply like Libranet these days, it does all of the things I liked about 
SuSE, but more streamlined, not as chunky and more standardised. I found my 
'niche'. ^_^

Make lunch, not war.



>On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:05, John Knight wrote:
> > Sure, some left wing hippy is gonna whinge his head off, but serious
> > corporate power could be good, IBM see the potential, flamewars here we 
>go,
> > eh?
>
>There's nothing but complaining on the SUSE list - and a lot of it. A few
>sensible people are saying let's wait and see, but most clearly hate the
>idea.
>
>SUSE always had the feel of a small, privately run company, mostly 
>influenced
>by technical issues and not, for the most part, by marketing or money men.
>The fact that they cared about the product first and foremost was one of 
>the
>reasons for their rise. Even Red Hat, the paragon of free software,
>eventually sold out to the enterprise market the money men so yearn for. 
>It's
>hard to imagine Novel/SUSE not doing the same. The "community market" just
>isn't worth the time when the enterprise market is so much more lucrative.
>
>I'm in the "let's wait and see" camp, but I'm deeply sceptical...
>
>--
> > eatapple
>core dump
>
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