On Friday 07 November 2003 22:11, John Telford wrote:
Fortunately, this time around trying to re-invent its self, Novell has bought Linux and Open Source expertise and products. It's up to Novell to make it work.
Imagine Linux, the free, european side of the software industry. It's not bound to any corporate american bonds, and makes available technology to the public, that many an industry have been combating for the past years. People, have the source code in front of them and are able to ensure that sensitive information, on private, national or corporate level aren't being sent to echolons local or abroad. If that suits them. As, a lot of guys have pointed out here, SuSE was the forefront of this European front. Suddenly an american company steps in, and buys them out with an offer no young corporation could say no to. Conspiracy? of course not. I mean, man never conspires ... doesn't really have the brain capacity. It's a chaotic Universe, it's just an illusion if we think that one element is going to a specific direction, because our view is warped by the fact, that our window of time, is such a small fraction of the elements life that what is curved, appears straight. We'll just have to see, how things go. But it's a shame that Europe has lost all it's longue capacity. Competition, was and always will be what benefits us ... the people. Mvh, Örn