Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

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

On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:12 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Steven T. Hatton wrote:

> 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.

That, in and of itself doesn't bother me.  But, from what I gather, the German 
government doesn't foster technology the way the US government does.  Who do 
you think bought thousands of licenses of BSOD NT and worked all the bugs out 
of it.  Please don't tell me it wasn't the US government, because I was on 
the ground doing the installs.

> 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.

Perhaps Novell will change the name of the Linux line to LinuxWare.  Oh yeh, I 
should add that I have a whole bunch of documentation for UnixWare around 
here somewhere.  

> If Hubert starts another company and continues with SuSE under another
> name (someone mention QLinux?) then that is what I will switch to.

It's a screwed up situation all around.  I sure don't want to screw the rest 
of SuSE more than they already been screwed.  I don't believe Novell execs 
quite understand what "free" in free software means.  I'm not gonna slam the 
rank and file.  They have some good people there.

Steven