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.
I'm still torn whether Novells decision was a good or bad choice. On the one hand Novell will receive lots of money from Microsoft which they can and hopefully will invest in good developers to increase the quality of SuSE and open source projects. On the other hand there's this awkward aftertaste that Novell has a deal with the "devil". I wouldn't be surprised if Novell more and more will use Mono for their tools, as a reward to the deal. I don't think this would be a good idea because .NET is a product by Microsoft for which they own all patents and copyrights. They could easily shut down projects like Mono all of a sudden if they wanted to! I know these are (wild) speculations but if I have the feeling that Microsoft is somehow influencing the roadmap of (Open)SuSE in future I probably will think about switching the distribution! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org