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On Novell's acquisition of SUSEOn Novell's acquisition of SUSEPosted Nov 5, 2003 0:58 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: On Novell's acquisition of SUSE by marduk Parent article: On Novell's acquisition of SUSE If they just keep paying the employees and don't interfere more with the projects, that would be fine in the cases of SuSE and Ximian, while it wasn't wise in the cases of projects that were originally more corporate. The projects these people are working on are not under Novell's control, anyway, due to having other members, so Novell's lack of direction with respect to its acquisitions isn't a problem. My suspicion as far as SuSE is that they want to sell Netware with Linux internals, and they therefore want to ensure (and assure their customers) that Linux won't dry up. Unless they actually have some sort of Linux branch, they have to worry about waking up one morning to find that all of the Linux developers have decided to go to grad school. But with a Linux branch, they can be confident that the projects will continue even if everyone else working on them decides to work on something else instead.
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