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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. Tis' better to own, than to invent.... by LibertineR · · Score: 1, Troll
    Do you hear that laughing sound, /.?

    Microsoft gets ready to launch the new cash cow, while at the same time, Linux deals with a nice fat FUD sandwich for a year or so while all this is sorted out. When a company has enough cash to buy your very soul, no amount of criticism or complaining can substitute for competition.

    A lot of time over the past 3 years that could have gone into inproving installs for new users, device drivers, and UI, has gone into endless chatter over the GPL and other issues that in the end, don't forward or develop marketshare.

    Watch, as your futures burn. Vista can stink to high-heaven, but by March of next year, it will take over and leave us in the dust. Shelves will begin to fill with Vista-ready software, and we will get to once again remember what it must have felt like to have a network based on OS/2 and wonder where the fuck are the apps!

    "Better" aint good enough, it never was, it never will be. Until you are ready to kick the giant in the balls, just as Microsoft did to IBM, nothing is going to change. How about a unified device driver model? How about some consolidation? Microsoft treats software as a business. Linux companies treat software as a self esteem project. "Money and profits? Who cares, baby? I can run five flavors of Linux on a 486, and stream video to my PDA for FREE, bitch!"

    Will we ever learn? I doubt it. Listen to the laughter coming from Redmond......