Comments on: Yet Another SuSE-Ubuntu Faceoff

By: Abnehmen Diät schnell

Abnehmen Diät schnell — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:52:16 +0000

Interesting to read this article. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to get observations from someone else’s point of view.

By: guy

guy — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:40:17 +0000

“MS aren’t as big as Sun Microsystems and IBM. They ain’t even close.”

Are you kidding us, guy? Or you really think that? MS surpassed Ibm back in 1999…..

By: dude

dude — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:39:18 +0000

Novell did wrong.Deal with MS is worst move you can do in FOSS world.Everyone can make errors but sometimes you have to pay for your errors.So, Novell probably did a pretty stupid move and will lose from it a lots.

By: linux fan

linux fan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:54:18 +0000

basically from now on whenever i hear the words ‘novell’ or ‘suse’ i am going to think stupid. lets just totally forget novell at all and pretty much pretend it doesnt exist. if someone asks what an expirienced linux user like me thinks of suse i am going to say “whats suse?, just use a distro like ubuntu”

By: pcbsduser aka linuxuser

pcbsduser aka linuxuser — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:05:47 +0000

im off the suse bandwagon and on to pcbsd it does everything i need to do !! and acording to IBM its rock solid i like it a lot.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:54:35 +0000

Brandon,
Technically when you jump from the roof of a building – it’s the pavement that kills you, not your act, but still …

By: RMXZ

RMXZ — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:06:44 +0000

Brandon – Novell isn’t dying – their just changing business models back to a closed source comany based on proprietary IP – both theirs and that licensed from others (Micrsoft).

Whether they can do this with Linux & GPL tricks is still unknown (seems they’re OK with GPLv2, but GPLv3 might cause them difficulties) — so I won’t be shocked to see Novell move to Unix instead.

But bottom line is they’re far from dead; and they think they found a viable business in the Microsoft-interoperability space. Heck, from this one contract alone they made almost as much as their Linux business makes in a year.

So no, Brandon, the OSS community didn’t kill Novell – Novell just decided they care more about Microsoft than the OSS community and the community is wishing them the best of luck in pleasing their new master.

By: Markus Sorensson

Markus Sorensson — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:57:04 +0000

This article is bull… as this site is too… your domains says boycottnovell but you are still running opensuse in your house and at work? WTF?

By: Philluminati

Philluminati — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:58:11 +0000

MS aren’t as big as Sun Microsystems and IBM. They ain’t even close.

Linux has absolutely nothing to worry about. MS are just scaring money out of linux companies. It’s effectively throwing your money away for piece of mind. Nothings going to happen.

I’d bet money this all fizzles out without torvalds declaring a call of arms.

By: Bondings

Bondings — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:29:26 +0000

Belgiumdomains is a bulk domain squatting company. They only register domains to make money – a lot of it.

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By: Azrael Nightwalker

Azrael Nightwalker — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:27:23 +0000

FLOSS community fighting with itself – thats what Microsoft wants. Don’t let them push you into brother-killing fight.

By: David Sterry

David Sterry — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:55:31 +0000

The MS/Novell deal isn’t all that bad for Novell. Their customers can see they’re trying to do something good in increasing interoperability. It’s highly unlikely that MS will benefit politically from anything they do with Linux. It’ll all just be seen as spreading FUD or trying to corrupt the ideals of FOSS.

By: Miguel Benevides

Miguel Benevides — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:46:08 +0000

hmmm… i still think Novell committed suicide.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:57:20 +0000

It’s not Microsoft that will kill Novell. It’s the OSS community that is going to kill Novell.