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A 5-Year Deal With Microsoft To Dump Novell/SUSE

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wake-up-call dept.

Nicholas Petreley writes, "Wake up little SUSE, wake up. No, that's not good enough. Wake up SUSE customers, wake up. Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux flourish, let alone survive, after Novell's five year deal with Microsoft expires, I suggest we make an alternative five-year deal with Microsoft. In this case, our part of the deal is to spend the next five minutes, months, or years migrating away from every shred of Novell/SUSE software in our home, office, or enterprise."

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  1. ATTN EDITORS:Thread problem by Anubis350 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Going to bring up a problem that LiquidCoooled brought up in another thread, hopefully it's visible here.

    Looks like replies are broken, perhaps data-base limitation, see LiquidCooled's post here

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  2. How About a Third Option by ClubStew · · Score: 4, Informative
    I see only two explanations for this apparent contradiction, neither of them good.

    Perhaps there's a third option: SUSE will contain code covered under Microsoft patents, since Microsoft is helping both the distribution and Windows interoperate better, which might mean breaking a few of its own patents, since Microsoft has that right.

    How about a fourth? The article thinks Novell is spreading FUD. Maybe out of this deal is code for use in other linux distros, but Microsoft is helping to energize SUSE given how much money was dumped into Novell.

    Now for a fifth: the article referenced in this post is just spreading FUD. It's the typical, "It stinks of Microsoft so it must be bad." I don't see how better interop is bad.