Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 05, 2003 01:43 PM
You are ranting and raving over an absurd fear. Novell will most likely NOT drop KDE because they need to differentiate themselves from RedHat. I expect more GNOME love, but that's because the Ximian crew has a gift! Watch as how their skills extend into KDE.
Also, being a corporate entity brings a potential scare, but don't scream fire until you smell smoke. If Novell wants to compete against Microsoft it will have to make money on the hardware side while giving away a personnal open-source piece. If they can make a small profit off of support, then they are golden.
RedHat's Fedora project is too restrictive (NTFS support and MP3 are still denied) thus RH will loose the home users. And for those who don't know, the home users bring it to the office not the other way around. Watch as RedHat begins to loose money soon.
Novell found a great project but if the free FTP install is removed, I will buy Cisco.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 05, 2003 01:43 PMAlso, being a corporate entity brings a potential scare, but don't scream fire until you smell smoke. If Novell wants to compete against Microsoft it will have to make money on the hardware side while giving away a personnal open-source piece. If they can make a small profit off of support, then they are golden.
RedHat's Fedora project is too restrictive (NTFS support and MP3 are still denied) thus RH will loose the home users. And for those who don't know, the home users bring it to the office not the other way around. Watch as RedHat begins to loose money soon.
Novell found a great project but if the free FTP install is removed, I will buy Cisco.
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