Comments on: Novell, Attachmate and openSUSE

By: pablo

pablo — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:45:05 +0000

> And from a business pov it would be crazy to kill of openSUSE – really, you’d be destroing a huge amount of value, for what?!?

oh my! what a lame question! can’t you see the single repeating pattern in microsoft’s history? sadly, there is value in destroying good things and hindering progress, and not just in the sofware business (e.g. the electric car) think a bit about this please.

By: Helen South

Helen South — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:35:52 +0000

ksovi, openSUSE has NOT been bought by Microsoft. Attachmate has expressed their intention to continued support of openSUSE and why wouldn’t they – it’s free R&D for a leading enterprise LInux in SUSE. They probably recognize that the world is changing and people are no longer happy with corporate monopoly – FOSS is the way of the future and Attachmate want to be part of it.

The first steps are being taken to establish the openSUSE Foundation.

Your favorite Linux distribution isn’t going away, it’s going from strength to strength.

Why not come on over and participate – we need writers, designers, marketers, educators as well as programmers. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate

By: ksovi

ksovi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:20:27 +0000

unfortunatelly every company that had anything to do with microsoft was distroyed by the giant monster. novell is just another story, nothing strange. too bad that suse and opensuse was dragged into it. sles and sled is a threat to microsoft and microsoft will destroy them both. i just hope opensuse will find a way somehow to survive due to its comunity and the fact that linux is becoming more and more popular amongst people.
it would be most shamefull to see another extraordinary kde distro (the other one being mandriva) slowly dying.
but it will happen, everyone who says opensuse will be fine under attachemate is in denial, you all know guys thet’s not the case, and we have to deal with it. fork opensuse? too soon to make such assumptions.
appart from ubuntu, and it’s father canonical,fedora and red hat, we maybe have to admit that linux distros are better off without big coorporations backing them. look at mint, arch.. perfect for gnome or kde lovers.
i will still use opensuse and mandriva untill they will die out, and they both will. mageia might be the perfect replacement to mandriva, but what comes after opensuse? i maybe should start getting used to arch for the future :P
our dream to be free is still there, just the whole linux community should make efforts that something like this never happens again, and i mean never allow a free linux distro be bought by microsoft.
peace to all of you!

By: Michal

Michal — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:26:01 +0000

Im not opensuse user anymore.

Thats all.

By: No One

No One — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:29:56 +0000

How did Attachmate come up with 2.2B? Simple answer: terminal emulation is just the tip of their iceburg. Furthermore, terminal emulation is an overlooked and underestimated market. One example is that many airlines and municipal governments make extensive use of their services.

If Microsoft was paying for the acquisition SEC regulations would require it be disclosed. Is amazing how many goofy conspiracy theories surround this one. Trust me, Attachmate hasn’t survived for 30 years by being stupid I doubt they are going to waste a choice acquisition like SUSE.

Bah…all this

By: Q_Element

Q_Element — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:48:50 +0000

My question is: How does Attachmate come up with 2.2B to purchase Novell. How did the terminal emulation business become so profitable? I doubt the company is even worth 2.2B. Microsoft is provising the purse-strings on this one.

By: Cherev

Cherev — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:21:45 +0000

Should Novell shareholders sue? Seems to me that they may be getting screwed if those 800+ patents have indefinite-duration royalty value.

Maybe this deal is a sneaky way for M$ to undo some Federal decisions? A case of M$ thumbing its nose at that court, without even paying off the Chicago crowd…

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:13:07 +0000

Quick question: Who owns/runs the servers these community pages are running on? Including the Mirrors, Package Rep. and Susestudio?? Cause that’s where the immediate power lies…

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:09:24 +0000

You use because you are able to evaluate what the software is designed to do, and whether it is implemented as documented, and whether it is secure enough to meet your security requirements. It has nothing to do with cost (Open Source software is either commercial, which means you have to pay for it anyway, or broken, which means you have to fix it yourself, and pay for it in house; openSUSE is broken, but there is hope of getting it better.)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:02:20 +0000

sequuntur