Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Oddball wrote:
> The only player on the market, capable to defeat M$, was bought and 
> sold... Foundations of open source shaken.... If you cann't beat them, 
> buy them....

Novell still is an independent corporation, its stock being publicly 
traded as others have pointed out).  And you'll have to ask Steve Ballmer, 
but I would be rather surprised if Novell or openSUSE are on his top three 
list of concerns or have ever been.

> And i donot know, if Windows 7 is born out of that deal, but it is the
> best OS build by MS until now.

This is completely unfounded.  In fact, it is outright silly.

> What of becoming a parter from Novell?

I'd appreciate openSUSE growing into such a rule, the keyword being
"growing".

> If Novell is for sale, can the community buy it?

The community just needs Some two, three million €.  Stock ticker is
NOVL.

> What is it oS needs, besides the infrastructure and a lot of money?

Contributors.

Gerald
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