Top Marks Novell

Posted Apr 19, 2003 8:10 UTC (Sat) by bosah (guest, #10744)
Parent article: An apology from Novell's CEO

One of the things to remember about open source is that everyone is a voting member of a culture thats very loyal and very active. Also, unlike closed source, many of us can both see and understand where packages are going and try and give them active support.

I hope you guys go all out. Novell has always been technically excellent and I could see you doing very well with a mysql type model. Two formats GPL and Commercial for many of your products. You guys have the technical savvy to stay ahead of generous free offerings, and\or make your support worth paying for. Meanwhile I think you will find that those free offerings are the best marketing you'll ever have.

I'd love to get you guys in the door or back in the door (as the case may be) with some well placed GPL code. If you guys are clear, fair and reasonable with Linux I'm sure it will respond to your generousity in kind.

Good luck.

Best news I've heard out of Novell since Novell 5.