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Too late to... Fork...please!Too late to... Fork...please!Posted Mar 19, 2006 10:41 UTC (Sun) by micampe (guest, #4384)In reply to: Too late to... Fork...please! by hingo Parent article: Fired, simply fired.
No need for conspiracy theories, simply their concept of "customer survey" (and that of others trying to make money from selling distributions) doesn't really involve people just downloading openSUSE, but rather people buying Novell Linux Desktop (or equivalent).
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Too late to... Fork...please! Posted Mar 19, 2006 19:45 UTC (Sun) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] Yes, I didn't mean it as a conspiracy theory. As I said, it is a decision based on a customer survey, nothing wrong there. But I cannot believe that a majority of current SUSE users - most of whom certainly have paid something for a SUSE cardboardbox, since that was always the way of the SUSE world - would suddenly prefer Gnome after all these years of using the nr 1 KDE distro. So it must mean, that said customer survey would probably have been conducted among US companies, perhaps among Ximian/Novell customers. And there is nothing wrong with that. For instance, it could be that those are Fortune 500 companies and their opinions deserve to be prioritised. But they certainly are not a representative group of SUSE's long time customers.
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