On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:04, robin wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > >>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >> > >>>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > >>> > >>>>According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse > >>>>for $210 million: > >>>>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html -- cmg > >>> > >>> I think this is A Good Thing for Linux. Not so good for > >>>Red Hat or Mandrake's enterprise efforts. But, the first thing > >>>that crossed my mind (actually Novell - SuSE acquisition has > >>>been rumored for a while), is how will this affect the SCO > >>>fiasco? Novell has rights to Unix code licensing, and can > >>>amend SCO's rights, which are subordinate. Or so Novell > >>>claims, and SCO is reluctant to admit. > >> > >>And now, what's next ? - IBM buys Mandrake ? > >> > >>Kaj Haulrich. > > > > > > What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux > > supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil > > into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also > > a strong Linux support group, an the reason they split from SCO some > > time back. BUT, SuSE, IBM, and Novell also have current an prior > > relationships and agreements. IBM is ante'g up $50 million into these > > Novell/Ximian/SuSE collaboration efforts. SuSE came out smellin like > > a rose. I believe so did Novell. > > > > So I just view it as circlin the wagons in a more concerted effort > > for OSS/GNU/Linux to take over the Net and enterprise. Fsck M$ et al. > > The money involved is relatively peanuts anyhow for Novell, not even > > pocket change for IBM. For an indicator, http://news.netcraft.com/ > > notice that Apache's (on Un*x) gain, mirrors M$ loss. BTW, IBM > > involvement is significant to me. They're about 19 on the world's > > largest companies. For perspective, Microsoft is somewhere in the > > 170's. BUT... > > > > So we're still here, just the 1 or 2% of the desktop users runnin > > Linux. RedHat wants to go enterprise only. No surprise they always > > considered regular users as a nuisance (which they are) for a > > commercial distro. Realistically there's only two major community > > sponsored choices left, Mandrake an Debian. I ain't goin anywhere, > > but there's much less than 1 or 2% left. What to do? .... > > > > So y'all can help, or give up. One or the other, no free rides. > > Join the Club, but also, > > tom $ cat /etc/mandrake-release > > Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 > > got goin yesterday. Install an test it, specially those with ready > > made marginal hardware (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, any laptop, etc). > > Subscribe (lurk) on the cooker and change log lists, contribute when > > you can. When it's done in a few months, you can feel proud that you > > helped ... or you can resort to being one of those that sings the > > same old song 'Mandrake hasn't been a good release <insert prior > > release>, this one should'a had more work an testing' .... > > I've never done any distro testing, since I only have a 4GB hard drive, > and it's currently 93% full. However, I should be getting a new box in > a few weeks' time, with enough space for a an extra Linux partition, and > enough speed to make it worthwhile compiling RPMs (I've only done that > once, for LyX, but I can relearn how to do it pretty quickly). I'll be > happy to test anything that doesn't blow up my monitor (remembering the > good old days when you edited a modeline and said a prayer before typing > "startx"). > > Sir Robin Thank god I'm to new for that :-)) -- When you're being mugged..a handgun is more comfort than an ACLU lawyer
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