It doesn't really matter if people like FMF (former MD of Gartner Group) will help kill some Linux-distro's in marketplace. However, if he touches SUSE Linux or things that depends on it, people like me (Azerion, noob beta-tester that should not be doing that) will help kill FMF in real life. And very efficiently, believe me.
Azerion
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Quite a few Novell products got killed in the past or are seemingly dead. But no Gartner Group MD, as far as I recall. ;-) Let's get serious now: I am not complaining about Novell's architectural decision to go with .net and I see even good reasons to use it. The issue is whether one is in an virtually exclusive way dependent on it. Who doesn't see the problem should start replacing linux networking with smb (cifs) and file systems with "Open NTFS" whenever MS makes such thing available. And will realize what kind of suizide such decisions in reality mean. FMF