Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 05, 2003 11:40 AM
Unix was already fragmented beyond repair when Novell bought it from AT&T. Linux has lots of distros but the kernel is pretty much unified, and Novell isn't getting control of that anyway.
This IBM big brother relationship is interesting - it's like they're blessing the acquisition, putting their weight behind it. Otherwise there would be real danger that, for example, a bunch of key engineers and managers might leave SuSE to start a new distro and everyone would say that Novell bought air.
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Re:IBM/Novell
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 05, 2003 11:40 AMThis IBM big brother relationship is interesting - it's like they're blessing the acquisition, putting their weight behind it. Otherwise there would be real danger that, for example, a bunch of key engineers and managers might leave SuSE to start a new distro and everyone would say that Novell bought air.
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