Novell taking over: 3 potential problems
I see 3 problems: 1)SuSE was an european company with european standard and the traditional "long term view". Are we going to see it managed with the traditional short term view of the americon stock market? 2)What is going to happen to big contracts as Munich (and maybe Vienna)? 3)Are they going to keep most of it in the realdom of OSFS (so GPL and friends) or not? -- Corrado Topi - . - e-mail: c.topi@hud.ac.uk tel (direct): (+44) (0) 1484 47 3700 ICQ#: 285296914 -.- Room CW 2.15b School of Computing and Engineering (Canalside West) University Of Huddersfield Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, West Yorkshire UK
2)What is going to happen to big contracts as Munich (and maybe Vienna)?
Given that they're contracts that have been signed (in Munich at least) they'll be followed through on. I would think that it's deals like these that were one of the things that attracted Novell to SUSE.
3)Are they going to keep most of it in the realdom of OSFS (so GPL and friends) or not?
They don't have a lot of choice but to do that - they don't own most of the software that's included in the distribution, so they can't change the license. And remember that the main piece of SUSE-owned software that we all know and love, YaST, isn't GPL anyway. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
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Corrado Topi
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