[Gllug] who is going to the novell roadshow tomorrow?

[Juergen Schinker]

Am Mo, 5.03.2007, 13:34, schrieb Joel Bernstein:

>
> I don't think Novell are an MS-ish evil empire.

as evil as any other commercial company

Their business for a
> long time has been providing fairly robust client/server/network service
> software for large business. They have embraced the Linux OS, with SuSE
> as their chosen distribution, to further their goal of regaining their
> dominance in that market.

...hostile takeover

 In which their more direct competitors are
> IBM, Oracle etc as much as Microsoft.

RedHat
>
> As it happens they sponsor an enormous amount of open source and kernel
> development, second perhaps only to Redhat (who also exist to sell
> support for Linux - are they also an evil empire? Is anybody evil if
> they make money from open source?) in magnitude. SuSE and Linux in
> general are better off for their investment.
>
> Have no doubt, Linux has benefitted enormously from Novell's patronage.
> I'm sure Novell have benefitted too, but is that really a problem? Did
> you do any work at all to gain the benefit of their expense?

the Problem for me is that they are selling it under their brand