On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:43, michael getachew <michaelhoustong@yahoo.com> wrote:
I think that more than Novell customers need to be worried...
i understand that SUSE belongs to Novell but how about openSuse? is opensuse considered novell property or since it is open-source and developed by non-novell developers too will it be left alone? or should we expect to see a fork of opensuse like libreoffice with openoffice?(lol-libresuse).
No, the issue with the names is trademarks. If Attachmate acquires Novell and abandons openSUSE while continuing to market SLES then there certainly will be a trademark issue if forked openSASD anyone? But given the development model, my opinion would be that SLES would severely hindered if the new owners were to abandon openSUSE without taking other measures first.
The openSUSE project is not a product of Novell and I expect it will be left alone,
But isn't that a technically for legal reasons? Last time I heard, Novell owns some subsidiary which owns Novell Cayman Islands which owns SUSE Linux AG who finally owns SUSE Linux Products GmbH and Novell only "markets" openSUSE. -- Med Vennlig Hilsen, A. Helge Joakimsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org