SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World

FrankoBoy writes "CRN has an interview with SuSE CEO Richard Seibt in which he claims such things as 'Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.' Another example of this kind of corporatespeak can be found in another interview he did with ZDNet last week. DistroWatch has an article about all this in its current weekly newsletter."

Comments

Re:Gentoo?

[Anonymous Coward]

Were gentoo zealots mentioned anywhere in the "most zealous zealot" poll?

I think they deserved their very own poll option.

Re:A bit inflammatory, no?

[Bingo Foo]

the shrieking in just the first 10 comments is completely misplaced.

On Slashdot? You're kidding, right?

MIHGT I RECOMMENDD GENTOOO?

[scotch]

Hellow fellow intranet user. I couldn't help but notice you mention [insert subject]. Might I recommend that you look at GENTOO instead? Your choice of [insert application] will most likely run 100 to 200% faster with a custome tweaked GENTOO distro. Furthermore, GENTOO provides the best in [insert area], [insert area], and [insert area], which I can see from your discussion of [insert subject] that you are interested in. If I can not convince you with technical arguments, perhaps philosophical ones will do instead: [insert product] is the moral equivalent of the wares sold by [insert despised commercial software company]. By supporting [insert non-GENTOO distro], you are supporting [insert despised CEO] and futhering the cause of evil. Just remember to add --funroll-all-the-loopies and --fomit-instructions and your GENTOO boxen will be super l33t like mine!

Good Day

Re:What other companies are there?

[c0dedude]

I'm sorry, i can't resist commenting that you know you're company's doing well when they're about to not be bankrupt anymore. :-)