I hate to break this to everybody, but this isn't about you and what you run at home. This is about the future of linux in the enterprise. Novell has attorneys just like MS, and believe me, this wasn't entered in to blindly by either side. Just to accommodate all the conspiracy theorists out there: Say Microsoft decides to sue. Maybe they have just enough patent infringement evidence to bring a lawsuit, maybe they don't. Maybe they don't care. What they do have is deep enough pockets to bring long extended lawsuits that drain huge amounts of money from linux distros, something Novell is now immune to for five years. Remember, IBM doesn't own a linux distro (although they too have thrown money behind Novell) and neither does Oracle, so it's not like there are really deep pockets out there to support Linux. During that time, if a company wants to use linux, MS has said it is going to play nice with SuSE, and right now, only SuSE. How can that be bad for Novell? I keep reading about SCO, well SCO is about to go broke because they aren't making a whole lot of money, and the lawsuits they brought are draining what little financial resources they do have. As for the beginning of my statement, can you imagine a major company saying "We are going to standardize on Ubuntu in our enterprise." If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. There are two major players in enterprise Linux, SuSE and RedHat, and RedHat has already said their interest lies in the server-side of things, not the desktop, so that leaves Novell. Instead of being so pissed off, be happy that a company might get it's Linux foot in the door. It's the beginning of what Linux people have been hoping for.
On 11/13/2006 at 7:00 AM, "SheridanJ West"
wrote: I'd like to thank all of you who have answered posts of mine to this mailing list (before it renamed). For the record i was waiting 10.2 and then bang Novell did a sco like licensing deal with the evil borg persons. Linux does not mean 'i support microsoft with money'
So I'm moving to new distro. Whether suse/novell consider us a hobby user is not important but supporting microsoft is not the deal i signed on with Suse before Novell bought it.
While i may not be supporting the ms deal if say i bought disks for 10, it's the thought that my loyalty is misplaced now. I can do better and mod perl 2 excites me.
So thank you once again and goodbye.
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