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Greed is a human fault and is on both sides of the pond example: When Daimler-Benz bought Chrysler. Richard A Sharpe (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 Amherst Technologies 40 Continental Blvd Merrimack, NH 03054 PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 FAX ...........(603) 578-1072 EMAIL .......rsharpe@amherst1.com "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith") -----Original Message----- From: Preston Crawford [mailto:me@prestoncrawford.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 4:55 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: Re: [SLE] novell ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Alderson Sent: 11/4/2003 2:34:00 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] novell
I agree that SuSE needs to advance but with the help of American companies not being purchased by them. I think the best way that American companies can help SuSE (or any other company in this same venue) is to provide financial investment, technical and development suport.
Some of this has been done but many companies still have fear of Microsoft retaliation and as a result do not provide any inhouse support for Linux. I think this will only become worse now that SuSE is pushed into obscurity by a company that has been beaten out on several fronts by Microsoft in the
Totally. That's one of the things that attracted me to SuSE. They made money. They sold a product (whether some people hated it or not) and made money selling a well put-together desktop/server Linux distro. And since they were foreign I guess I had the misguided impression that this would be how they would continue to function on into the future, forever. Amen. And now it's shattered. American hypergreed is in the picture and who knows what will happen from a technical perspective. And who knows if they'll even offer a desktop any longer. past.
This will not instill confidence in these companies to break the strangle hold that Microsoft has on them and support other systems.
Agreed.
The future is uncertain but I see this as a terrible blow to SuSE and the Linux community as a whole. Time will tell if Novell can prove itself capable of handling such a responsiblity. I doubt that they can. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't think you are. It's wild. One day I'm cruising along fine, debating whether to upgrade to SuSE 9 and the next I'm trying to read tea leaves and figure out if I need to once and for all make the jump to FreeBSD. And this is just at a personal level. From the level of looking at the Linux landscape as a whole it's a lot different this week than it was a few weeks ago. That's for sure. The future may be Mandrake on the desktop, as sad as that is. Preston -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Sharpe, Richard