Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 05, 2003 12:39 PM
I do not like Gnome, and I have severe security reservations about Ximian. For one thing, you cannot keep unwanted visitors out of your computer if you use Ximian. I have been a long time SuSE customer. Once a company is sold, it loses its soul. Just what Novell will do with this I have no idea. My guess is that they will play with it for a while and milk it for what they can; and then they just might sell it (spin it off) to Microsoft or SCO so they could close it down or make YAST even more proprietary than it is.
And that would really smell.
Within a year we will not recognize SuSE. Chances are that its programmers will become Hindu or Chinese instead of German, and dust will collect in SuSE's former offices in Nurnberg. We will then sing a funeral dirge over the bones of yet another good distro swallowed up by the monster.
SuSE changes ANYTHING in its distro and I will switch to another distro. And if all my programmers are going to be Commy Chinese anyway, I will buy Red Flag Linux and at least have an honest one that will NEVER be sold.
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Re:Proprietary Software
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 05, 2003 12:39 PMreservations about Ximian. For one thing, you
cannot keep unwanted visitors out of your computer
if you use Ximian. I have been a long time SuSE
customer. Once a company is sold, it loses its
soul. Just what Novell will do with this I have
no idea. My guess is that they will play with it
for a while and milk it for what they can; and
then they just might sell it (spin it off) to
Microsoft or SCO so they could close it down or
make YAST even more proprietary than it is.
And that would really smell.
Within a year we will not recognize SuSE. Chances are that its programmers will become
Hindu or Chinese instead of German, and dust will
collect in SuSE's former offices in Nurnberg. We
will then sing a funeral dirge over the bones of
yet another good distro swallowed up by the
monster.
SuSE changes ANYTHING in its distro and I will
switch to another distro. And if all my programmers are going to be Commy Chinese anyway,
I will buy Red Flag Linux and at least have an honest one that will NEVER be sold.
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