On Friday 31 August 2007 07:05, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 30-Aug-07, at 6:45 PM, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
And anyway, do notice the fact that quite a few opensuse developers contribute a lot of good stuff.
also, for the ordinary user who just wants things to work, Suse, along with Mandriva are the two distros that really rock. Further Novell has deep roots in India and a huge support infrastructure, It,
All the strengths and they go and shoot themselves in both feet. The deal brings Novell in M$ gunsight the moment it expires in 4 yrs. Ifact proly much earlier given that gplV3 adoption is happening a lot faster and Linus who was very opposed now finding it more to his liking. Including closed bits in a distro makes these bits the wealest link in the reliability / maintaiability / performance chain and will reduce a distro to the weakeness of the closed code vendor. In short companies like Novell are bartering away their strength for a weakness in order to gain a very temp advantage. Infact such distros will be an order of magnitude weaker than the closed vendor. Precisely what M$ wants.
along with Redhat are the only two options government and industry can go for. No other distro offers support in India. In addition tamilnadu has just installed about 50,000 Suse computers across the state. These are facts. Live with them - no use spouting ideology - concretely what are we going to do about this?
explain the dangers to anyone who cares to listen.