Novell Sold - What Will Become openSUSE?
It was announced this morning that Novell has sold off some portion of its intellectual properties to CPTN Holdings, (backed by Microsoft) for $450 million. The remainder of Novell assets will be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for about $2.2 billion. This should be of no surprise as Novell staked a For Sale sign in their front yard several months ago. But this has undoubtedly left users and developers wondering what will become of openSUSE.
Andreas Jaeger, openSUSE Program Manager, could only say, "I have no news yet on what this means for openSUSE besides the [announcement]. We'll keep you informed as soon as we hear more..." He added, "FYI, let's not speculate until we have more information..."
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re: OpenSuse
Wow, he's either naive, stupid, or new to the internet.
It's called wishful thinking.
It is like someone just dropped a fresh, bloody steak into the water with a dozen hungry sharks, then jumps in afterwards to 'rescue' the steak for grilling.
There are several major projects which are under the OpenSUSE umbrella which I hope will survive. And OpenSUSE is the best KDE distribution which I have tried, I just don't personally want to use KDE 4.
not familiar
with these other companies. just curious, does this mean that MS "wins" in terms of it couldn't beat Linux in court so it bought it instead?
re: ms wins
Well, MS probably owns Mono now and others speculate that it also has UNIX. But as Brian Proffitt said, no one has proven that Linux infringes upon Unix yet.