Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Gerald Pfeifer schreef:
> 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.
>   
I would not wounder why...

>   
> > What of becoming a parter from Novell?
> >     
>
> I'd appreciate openSUSE growing into such a rule, the keyword being
> "growing".
>   
exactly!

>   
> > If Novell is for sale, can the community buy it?
> >     
>
> The community just needs Some two, three million €.  Stock ticker is
> NOVL.
>   
Are you sure? This is much less than i thought...

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

Than you must not kick them away.. ;-)


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