Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 16:12 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:32 pm, Herman Knief wrote:
> > 
> >>I just want to express my gratitude for the years of effort, attention
> >>to detail and quality that Hubert has delivered to SuSE and the Linux
> >>community as a whole.  I hope that as he leaves SuSE that he will not
> >>travel far from the community he has helped to build.
> >>
> >>Herman
> > 
> > 
> > SuSE Linux WITH the KDE is the best thing to come out of Germany since the 
> > printing press.
> 
> Which is why I chose SuSE as my Linux distro, and I just could NOT 
> understand how the German government allowed the sale of a German 
> company to a foreign company.

  Daimler Benz and Chrysler Corporation of America ring a bell?

> I'll make a fearless prediction here which I have been meaning to pen 
> for some days now and that is that Novell will go belly-up within 18 
> months and it will be either acquired by M$ or Sun - and in either case 
> SuSE as we now know, and love, will disappear.
> 
> If Hubert starts another company and continues with SuSE under another 
> name (someone mention QLinux?) then that is what I will switch to.

  I'll definitely give it a look.  I was impressed by what SuSE had
accomplished before being bought out, and I'm sure the same guiding
spirit can top what I came to like.

  Mike