Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX

[Jeremy Fowler]

Spoken like a true FUD evangelist working for the evil empire. Come' on man, wake up and smell the 
coffee - the only thing in this world that never changes is change itself. 

Anyone else find it ironically amusing that Jonathon criticizes others for remaining in the past, 
yet is unable to take into account the current state of Novell technology? Your basing your 
opinions of Novell of what it was a decade ago. 

Seriously dude, when was the last time you actually sat down and worked with Novell's latest 
technology with an open mind not weighed down with prejudice and inaccurate references to your own 
archaic knowledge of Novell? 

I for one applaud Novell's effort to not only defend Linux against SCO, bring together Linux 
developers, give jobs to unemployed Linux Users, and have the foresight to put the entire product 
line behind Linux. 

For F*ck-sake man, what do they have to do in order for them to win your approval? Walk on water? 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at tarcanfel.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:08 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise
Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:33 am, Michael Pratt wrote:

> http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html

For those of us not on broadband, Novell have announced it's purchase of SUSE 
(formerly SuSE) Linux, following their recent purchase of Ximian.

While I'm glad to see Linux getting mainstream support, and while Novell 
appear to be acquiring strongly complimentary companies, they've done this in 
the past only to run them solidly into the ground.  I don't think much of 
their vision or their ability to move forward off of dead technology.  They 
remind me of the KC PC Users Group, who are still complaining that Windows is 
a conspiracy by Bill Gates to make their 286's obsolete.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm concerned that SUSE will end up getting 
the same smothering treatment Corel did, but I guess we'll have to wait and 
see.