Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 01:11 am, Kai Ponte wrote:

> I was just talking to a few co-workers about this today. I had hoped Novell
> would've gotten their proverbial act together and learned the lessons after
> they royally fscked up with Netware - going from a fantastic product (3.x)
> with 80% market share to a horrid series of failures (4.x/5.x) and losing
> 75% of that market share to the technologically inferior NT.

What Novell didn't have, that NT had was UI.  NT provided enough functionality 
that the ease of use became the entire issue.

> My prediction is that they'll sell SuSE to some operating system vendor who
> will then buy it up and eventually sue IBM and all other players for
> trademark and copyright infringement as their revenue model.
>
> Just watch!

I can't imagine Novell got anything tangible out of the accusion other than, 
perhaps, some contracts.  As for the most valuable resource at SuSE, they 
seem to be in a hurry to get rid of them.  I'm real not happy about this 
situation.  I am holding a whole lot back. 

Steven