In as much as I have criticized the monster known as MS, I don't think a lot of you really want to go slit your wrists open, tear out your hair, and put on sackcloth just yet. We don't even know the complete financial details of this deal yet. And I wonder if the same doom and gloomers are the ones who have consistently bitched about interoperability for MS-Linux. Guess what guys, you can't have it both ways. Kurt Wall wrote:
Novell has sold out. I don't see how this makes good business sense in the long term, except, of course, for Microsoft and possibly Red Hat. You don't make deals with Microsoft, because they'll find a way to to weasel out of it. Novell, of all companies, should understand this well. Are memories so fscking short? I'm stunned and astonished.
This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell. I appreciate the openSUSE != SUSE insofar as openSUSE is, ostensibly at least, a community project, but when Microsoft turns on Novell, _and they will_, I don't want to be around to get any on me. So long.
Begrudgingly, Red Hat and Fedora have another customer.
Kurt
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