Dell Partners with MS/Novell for Linux Servers

untouchableForce writes "Dell has announced that it will join forces with Microsoft and Novell to "make it easier for the Windows operating system and the [...] Linux [operating] system to work together." This is not overly surprising given Dell's good relationship with Microsoft, and since they already sell SUSE Linux on some of their servers, but it is likely to put a stop to the OSS community's celebration of them distributing Ubuntu. The debate over partnership between Microsoft and Novell has been drawn out since the deal was signed and for some this will add additional fuel to the fire but shouldn't the OSS community be reading this as an acceptance of Company's acknowledgment of Linux?"

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Thats it, i heard enough

[FudRucker]

i am switching to FreeBSD...

I can hear the screaming now!

[FlyingGuy]

Kids it is time to Get over it!

Facts on the Ground...

• Microsoft IS the dominent player in Desktops and General Purpose Servers, for now.
• Novell IS legitimizing a Linux distro to Corporate America, and thats a good thing.
• Dell IS the dominent player in general purpose hardware, for now.

So its time to stop whining and crying because your favorite distro is not the one being pushed. Be thankfull that at least one major distro is being very heavily funded to the tune of millions of dollars a month to make it the best it can possibly be.

I am not for a moment suggesting that you abandon the distro you know and love, nor am I suggesting you abandon coding ( if you are a coder ) for the distro you know and love, but for crying out loud, stop pitching a bitch about this! This is GOOD for Linux and FSF & OSS. You have a distro in SUSE that has a definitive road map and has massive amounts of push behind it.

As for the news of "key people" quiting Novell, you know what? They will be replaced by people that are at least as smart, if not smarter. Novell has bet their corporate ass on making SUSE attractive and palitable to the Corporate IT Managers and decision makers and they are doing a damn decent job of it too!

You want to help the Linux cause? Start writing or porting your BEST ideas to SUSE! Make it SO attractive the Corporate IT Managers and decision makers that they cannot afford to ignore it. Make YOUR software as attractive and accessable to the average user that they will begin to demand it!

Pick a Microsoft program that is decent, that people use, and do it 10 times better! 10 times better in usability, in form, in function, in Interface. Support interface standards. Do YOUR part to make Linux so utterly usuable to the average user that it simply cannot be ignored.

THAT is how you will win this war, not by bitching about it, having tin hat collusion theories, but by beating them at their own game and doing it like we all want to, with FSF and OSS.