On 11/8/06, Matt T.
1) Experience with seeing Novell buying, hyping, killing, and then selling WordPerfect, QuattroPro, DrDOS, UnixWare, etc. etc. It always looked as if they would do the job for Microsoft, eliminating the competition. This made me worrying the moment Novell bought SuSE.
eh.h.. doesn't really count. that era of tech history is littered with these kinds of moves and stories. anyone remember Borland? but this discussion is beside the point. my beef with this is, and I hope Andres can see my point of view, I have supported SUSE for a lot of years. since 7.x i think. I always made sure my employer bought boxed and I never told them I can easily FTP install it for free. i am not a developer, my employer benefited from my work with it and this was my little way i could contribute to SUSE and pretend that I was helping it keep chugging along. why would I keep buying boxed now when I know it will be going to MS, what do they need more money and support for? they have a major monopoly on the OS and enterprise App marker. If Ballmer came out and said, "the money we get from SUSE sales we will pour all of it right back into Linux or Unix projects that we like and seem to really need the support". Man, if they said they would give it to OpenBSD (friggin' everyone uses and makes money from the OpenSSH project), now I would be behind this MS move into SUSE. But it's not gonna happen. 10.1 is probably going to be my last SUSE distro. I am going Ubuntu or Fedora. I would ever go with Red Hat at this point. They seem the lesser of evils. -- jjgitties, "*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend."