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Hmm....

Posted Nov 10, 2004 7:18 UTC (Wed) by stock (subscriber, #5849)
In reply to: Hmm.... by havoc
Parent article: Mandrakesoft revenues increase

Stay clear of Novell, they are the tiny version of the evil software
empire :

"Why timing of Novell Linux chief resignation, Microsoft payoff is rather
curious"
http://business.newsforge.com/business/04/11/09/1932205.s...

SuSE will be left at the garbage... If you think thats a nice idea, then
i know enough. I reckon you either have special interests in these evil
software corporations, or you seem to have no clue what happens when a
European independent Linux company becomes a lame puppy in the hands of a
US Software Corporation.

Novell has a rather ugly track-record when it comes to buying other
companies products : http://www.ctyme.com/dri.htm

I tried SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 here, and i was not impressed. It seems i'm not
the only one.

Robert

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Hmm....

Posted Nov 10, 2004 17:22 UTC (Wed) by havoc (guest, #2261) [Link]

According to Andrew Morton (with Hat Tip to Linux Journal, Nov.2004):

- Approximately 1,000 developers contribute changes to Linux on a regular basis.
- 10% of those are paid to work on Linux by their employers.
- That 10% (100 developers) contributed 97.4% of the 38,000 latest changes.

Novell/SUSE is one of those companies. I support that. I support Linux with my dollars. I'm not ashamed of that.

That said, do not try to bait me into defending Novell and/or SUSE. I won't play that game.

Oh, yeah, I buy proprietary software that runs on my Linux desktops, too. Evil me!