[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“I think it’s safe to predict that future historians looking at
the history of Linux will spend a lot of time muttering about the
events preceeding, surrounding, and flowing from, Novell’s purchase
of SuSe in late 2003. Personally I’d very much like to understand
what happened, but I don’t have the information needed to reach any
conclusion–and if you do, I’d appreciate a comment here or an
email.“There’s some stuff we do know. Just prior to the sale, SuSe was
the leading distribution, arguably in terms of technology and
certainly in terms of positive press both in Europe and North
America…”