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:Linux Journal: A Five Year Deal with Microsoft to Dump Novell/SUSE
Linux Journal: A Five Year Deal with Microsoft to Dump Novell/SUSE
Nov 10, 2006, 00 :15 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (6387 reads)

(Other stories by Nicholas Petreley)

"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.

"The controversial agreement between Microsoft and Novell stinks to high heaven. Look, for example, at the contradictory statements..."

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For the corporate environment this is a  ...   This is simply wrong.   
DCPerspective.com
Nov 10, 2006, 01:36:43
 
 For the corporate environment this is a ...   Re: This is simply wrong.   
GreyGeek
Nov 10, 2006, 14:23:16
 
> For the corporate environment this is  ...   Re: This is simply wrong.   
Roger Moore
Nov 10, 2006, 15:17:20
 
Good grief, I feel like Charlie Brown! I ...   Novell and MS   
paul
Nov 10, 2006, 19:51:53
 
> Good grief, I feel like Charlie Brown! ...   Re: Novell and MS   
John Styles
Nov 10, 2006, 22:50:34
 
Delinquent?  No they are way way past de ...   Re: Re: Novell and MS   
hkhgjghj
Nov 11, 2006, 01:40:28
 
Novell stood smiling on the same stage w ...   Re: Re: Novell and MS   
paul
Nov 11, 2006, 02:18:46
 
 I have no argument with what you state  ...   Re: Re: Re: Novell and MS   
John Styles
Nov 11, 2006, 12:42:09
 
When Iron Mike Tyson was boxing, he did  ...   Re: Re: Re: Novell and MS   
Carlos Cesar
Nov 11, 2006, 19:28:51
 
Quote from (Novell and MS), "What Novell ...   Re: Novell and MS   
Don Whitbeck
Nov 13, 2006, 00:21:27
 
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