On 10/06/10 03:14, Per Jessen wrote:
Karsten König wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010, 16:35:51 schrieb Per Jessen:
Karsten König wrote:
For Fedora and RedHat I think it's basicly the same as openSUSE to Novell about gained expertise, testbed etc. Still RedHat as a company seems more of a grey eminance and has a better reputation, I can't say if it is still justified, but I often have more trust in projects kicked off by RedHat engineers as their communication feels more open.
RedHat and Canonical both have the tremendous advantage of being Linux companies fair and square.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
SuSE still rings a bell? It is one of the first companies founded to sell a linux distribution and to create a business model around it, according to wikipedia more then 10 years before Canonical and even one year before RedHat.
Sure, but that identity is long gone and dead - unfortunately.
So SuSE is owned by Novell, now they aren't a Linux company anymore?
We have all been told that SuSE does not exist, is not an entity (except in the Handelsregister). However, openSUSE would be in a much better position if it was still SuSE Linux, IMHO.
I am more than sure that this is not just your opinion, Per. I feel so sorry for all the good people I have dealt with over the years and who still work for on the SuSE side - but still believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny :-( . I can now see that questions which I asked some 3 or 4 years ago about SuSE/openSUSE/Novell and for which I got my guts kicked in by the zealots are now being asked and addressed under the guise of (?)"Strategy Discussion". One of the questions I raised, as you will recall, is what did Novell have as a "strategy", a "goal", when it bought SuSE? But now years later it comes up as something to be discussed by people working for Novell/SuSE - sorry, openSUSE. Trifle Menot is asking the same questions and making the same observations as myself - but I have to admit with a bit more reservation than myself. Nothing has changed it seems: people are just not, as Trifle stated, fooled by horse-manure (my interpretation, btw). I have moved on. I now use another distro (Ubuntu) but I still have openSUSE (11.2) installed on my wife's computer. Why is openSUSE still on her computer? If you are married you would know the answer :-D . But I cannot see 11.3 going on her computer in the very near future. Rather sad as I did think SuSE was the "ants pants" because it was a solid German product (when we - the group of friends I have- all thought the same - and moved to SuSE) -- until Novell bought it. BC -- Attorney: All your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? Witness: Oral. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org