"by equating the O.S.'s as "trivial issues" is marginalizing the efforts put in by many."
Including many who work for Novell whom you now despise along with M$. There are many people paid by Novell who have advanced the efforts.... but I guess because they get a paycheck they don't count.
"a) We pissed off a pile of people / businesses that use our product (or did)"
Are you saying that Novell has lost business as a result? You're saying that all of those who were using OpenSuSE have been paying for it and revenues have declined as a result? Perhaps you've forgotten that Novell is not a philanthropy, but a for-profit organization. They have profited from the deal and not just in the short term. The announcement from SAP that SuSE is their recommended distro has done what RH in all their years hasn't been able to do... give credibility to Linux as a true enterprise-class OS. This announcement from SAP was a direct result of the M$/Novell agreement... perhaps having Linux now viewed as truly enterprise-worthy is not in the best interest of the community? Or perhaps all in the community are also anti-capitalism in addition to being anti-M$.
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"by equating the O.S.'s as "trivial issues" is marginalizing the efforts put in by many." Including many who work for Novell whom you now despise along with M$. There are many people paid by Novell who have advanced the efforts.... but I guess because they get a paycheck they don't count.
"a) We pissed off a pile of people / businesses that use our product (or did)" Are you saying that Novell has lost business as a result? You're saying that all of those who were using OpenSuSE have been paying for it and revenues have declined as a result? Perhaps you've forgotten that Novell is not a philanthropy, but a for-profit organization. They have profited from the deal and not just in the short term. The announcement from SAP that SuSE is their recommended distro has done what RH in all their years hasn't been able to do ... give credibility to Linux as a true enterprise-class OS. This announcement from SAP was a direct result of the M$/Novell agreement... perhaps having Linux now viewed as truly enterprise-worthy is not in the best interest of the community? Or perhaps all in the community are also anti-capitalism in addition to being anti-M$.