On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:38 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:12 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Which is why I chose SuSE as my Linux distro, and I just could NOT understand how the German government allowed the sale of a German company to a foreign company.
That, in and of itself doesn't bother me. But, from what I gather, the German government doesn't foster technology the way the US government does. Who do you think bought thousands of licenses of BSOD NT and worked all the bugs out of it. Please don't tell me it wasn't the US government, because I was on the ground doing the installs.
I'll make a fearless prediction here which I have been meaning to pen for some days now and that is that Novell will go belly-up within 18 months and it will be either acquired by M$ or Sun - and in either case SuSE as we now know, and love, will disappear.
Perhaps Novell will change the name of the Linux line to LinuxWare. Oh yeh, I should add that I have a whole bunch of documentation for UnixWare around here somewhere.
If Hubert starts another company and continues with SuSE under another name (someone mention QLinux?) then that is what I will switch to.
It's a screwed up situation all around. I sure don't want to screw the rest of SuSE more than they already been screwed. I don't believe Novell execs quite understand what "free" in free software means. I'm not gonna slam the rank and file. They have some good people there.
I was just talking to a few co-workers about this today. I had hoped Novell would've gotten their proverbial act together and learned the lessons after they royally fscked up with Netware - going from a fantastic product (3.x) with 80% market share to a horrid series of failures (4.x/5.x) and losing 75% of that market share to the technologically inferior NT. My prediction is that they'll sell SuSE to some operating system vendor who will then buy it up and eventually sue IBM and all other players for trademark and copyright infringement as their revenue model. Just watch! -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part