On Sun 12 Nov 2006 05:29:31p, Roy Schestowitz
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> It sure looks like it, but the investors will be happy in the short
> term. I hope you are right in assessing this the way you did,
> essentially suggesting that Microsoft's move (approval) and Ballmer's
> FUD (implicit acknowledgement that Linux is /downloaded/, not bought
> and thus shatters the 'market share' argument/lie) will have the
> opposite and advisory effect.
If you look at the tone of Novell's second press release on this
subject (Nov 7) and there "backpeddling" in the "Answers" about the
agreement with Microsoft, it appears that they've already experienced a
pretty serious backlash. I'm guessing the Novell's investor's happiness
will be very short lived. They've basically destroyed their business
(actually SUSE's business) for one *big* bribe.
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/
> SUSE's slash and boot screens are rather delineative: Simply Change,
> they exclaim. I sure will do so myself on the next installation
> cycle. Within hours/days, many SUSE/Novell supporters became their
> enemies and critics. Well done, whoever made this deal.
>
> SuSE lost me when Novell picked them up
It appears that they had already lost a lot SUSE customers. So maybe
this was an act of desperation -- kind of like SCO's. Problem is,
they've bought up some good Linux applicatons.
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Perhaps it was an unfair prejudgement on my part, but when Novell
>| picked up SuSE, I went on.
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> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205713&cid=16785773
Definitely looks to be the right decision.
> Worst of all, look what MS and Novell did here (also Oracle perhaps).
> They led to a backlash and a civil war in the Linux world. They turns
> us against ourselves by taking over who used to be a fierce and
> highly competitive rival.
People will probably just migrate to someone else. Might be an
opportunity for someone like Mandriva. It's too bad, because I liked
SUSE.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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