“You’ve read more than enough already about how Novell and
Microsoft signed an agreement that’s supposed to help Novell sell
Linux to Microsoft customers and help Microsoft customers integrate
Linux–as long as it’s Novell Linux–into their IT environments
without fear of patent lawsuits. Part of the yammer was an open
letter from Novell’s CEO claiming that deal didn’t really mean what
you thought it did, followed by a statement from Microsoft that
said Novell’s CEO didn’t really mean to say what he said or was
wrong about some of it. Or something. Then Mark Shuttleworth jumped
into the mess by offering a new, Microsoft-free home for openSUSE
developers who didn’t want to truck with Novell any longer because
of its Microsoft deal. I don’t know about you, but suddenly I’m
starting to think Debian ought to be my GNU/Linux distribution of
choice, and that I should turn to Mac OS for those few tasks I
cannot currently accomplish with Linux and Free Software.“I have happily used SUSE Linux in the past and currently run
Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu, even though my friend Logan says that Ubuntu
‘is a Swahili word that means ‘Too stupid to configure
Debian…””
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