Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Mike <mikedl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:23, Langsley wrote:
> "The Novell people deny that Novell is dumping either SUSE Linux or the
> KDE desktop suite."

Novell spent a lot of money on a highly regarded KDE-based product with loyal 
customers.  If they choose to copy RedHat's GNOME strategy and push a 
superior technology (KDE) off to the side, it will be a tragic mistake for 
them - but not for us.

The beauty of Linux and the BSDs are that we have many choices to have a 
superior product that do not involve funding Novell's strategy Kubuntu, 
OpenSuSE, Mandriva, Knoppix, and many others.  So don't stress over this 
stuff - if Novell continues to make the wrong choices, it's _very_ easy to 
change.

Because Microsoft has been dominant for so long, people seem to have forgotten 
what competition and choice in the OS marketplace feels like.  This includes 
Novell, who seem to feel that SuSE customers are captives regardless of how 
they change critical parts of the product.