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?
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