[wplug] Novell to acquire SUSE

Henry Umansky hmust2+ at pitt.edu
Tue Nov 4 12:35:45 EST 2003


FYI - according to the press conference, it's pronounced Soo-Sa.  All this 
time I was pronouncing it incorrectly.

--On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:49 AM -0500 Henry Umansky 
<hmust2+ at pitt.edu> wrote:r

> Linux will never become too corporate, distributions might become
> corporate, but Linux itself won't.  There will always be another
> distribution that will be free and just as good as the pay distributions.
> Also the Novel/Suse deal went through for $210 million cash[1].  I'm
> hoping that Novel would buyout my company for that much.
>
> -Henry
>
> [1] http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/04/technology/novell/index.htm
>
> --On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:52 AM -0500 Russ Schneider
> <russ at sugapablo.com> wrote:r
>
>> John Harrold wrote:
>>
>>> since novell owns ximian and they are looking at desktop linux, i think
>>> this could be good if that's where you want to see linux going-which i
>>> do :). since i don't use suse, i'm probably not very sensitive to the
>>> suse way and the impact novell might have on it. i just don't think of
>>> novell as being a very disruptive company though, so i wouldn't expect
>>> them to hinder suse too much. i think a lot of good could come of this.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know.  I'm just nervous about Linux becoming too corporate and
>> destroying what was and is such a wonderful product/situation.
>>
>> Debian still exists.  Fedora could be just as strong.  Mandrake, for now,
>> still allows free copies to be downloaded.  As long as these still exist
>> in a strong fashion, I'll still remain hopeful though.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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Henry Umansky
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