Achieving customer lock-in through technology ?

Posted Nov 14, 2003 0:01 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: KDE vs GNOME by mdekkers
Parent article: On Novell's acquisition of SUSE

Hmm... That's what SUSE did all along, you know (YaST). They published sources - so what ? This still is lock-in. So it makes sense Novell who plays lock-in games will buy the only major distribution which played lock-in game.

You got what you asked for, you know: SUSE always was distribution without ability to create proper fork if needed and now Novell using it. Good thinking for Novell! You can not do it with RedHat customers. Not really - that's how Mandrake started. But Novell can and thus will do it with SUSE customers.