Re: openSUSE's Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 90.203.105.15]
on June 15, 2008 11:19 PM
This is just ridiculous nonsense that obviously comes to you from the completely ridiculous FUD that has infiltrated the community because of a few silly people. Getting openSUSE/SUSE and running _Linux_ does NOT help Microsoft, come on. Novell made a _business_ deal with Microsoft that covers several things, one of them being customer patent protection. It's unbelievable to think that this has been twisted to suggest that there is a general strategic alliance between Novell and MS when the reality could barely be further from the truth.
Believe it or not you can still be a fierce competitor even though you agree to collaborate on some particular areas. The collaboration came about because of CUSTOMER demand, no other reason -- and the amount of new customers that SUSE got because of this speaks for itself. Thousands of SUSE Linux Enterprise copies sold since the deal. Novell have taken full advantage of this deal -- they've got more much-needed money into Linux, they've got more and more copies of Linux sold, and they're working to tackle one of the main issues in the enterprise -- interoperability with Microsoft products. Which, as much as you might hate, is simply a reality in the enterprise when MS currently has such a dominance.
SUSE and Novell are one of the biggest contributors to free software -- they're certainly the biggest contributors to the Linux _desktop_, with hundreds of free software developers working day in and day out to make the Linux desktop an actual reality. They're the ones (like Red hat) working upstream all the time on the applications that all other distributions (like Ubuntu) happily use. So really, they deserve an awful lot of kudos, and Novell succeeding is actually a huge -- or rather, HUGE -- benefit to Linux, considering how many developers they have working on the Linux desktop.
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Re: openSUSE's Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 90.203.105.15] on June 15, 2008 11:19 PMBelieve it or not you can still be a fierce competitor even though you agree to collaborate on some particular areas. The collaboration came about because of CUSTOMER demand, no other reason -- and the amount of new customers that SUSE got because of this speaks for itself. Thousands of SUSE Linux Enterprise copies sold since the deal. Novell have taken full advantage of this deal -- they've got more much-needed money into Linux, they've got more and more copies of Linux sold, and they're working to tackle one of the main issues in the enterprise -- interoperability with Microsoft products. Which, as much as you might hate, is simply a reality in the enterprise when MS currently has such a dominance.
SUSE and Novell are one of the biggest contributors to free software -- they're certainly the biggest contributors to the Linux _desktop_, with hundreds of free software developers working day in and day out to make the Linux desktop an actual reality. They're the ones (like Red hat) working upstream all the time on the applications that all other distributions (like Ubuntu) happily use. So really, they deserve an awful lot of kudos, and Novell succeeding is actually a huge -- or rather, HUGE -- benefit to Linux, considering how many developers they have working on the Linux desktop.
In summary, just read http://opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS
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