Apple Computers and Apple Records:Told You So!

And here is the link

let me eat the biggest crow pie

And here is why

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4287912423.html

so now I'll be using SUSE again

More fretting about Novell-MSFT deal

I was truly dumbfounded by this move by Novell, but things like this don't happen over lunch, obviously this has been orchestrated in the background by Microsoft's Linux guy Bill Hilf for some time now, sold the idea to Steve Ballmer, who now looks like a genius to the stockholders. The terms of the con as far as I can figure out, is practically the same as SCO's initial blackmail terms to the Linux world, except I don't see any money or licensing deal, just promises not to sue over "patent infringement", which is horse hockey and a promise of "interoperability" between Windows and Novel's brand of Linux.
Is Novell making a calculated bet that their company can make a serious dent Red Hat's business and eventually subvert Microsoft's business through this "Non-agression"pact? I've been a fan of SuSE, now SUSE for seven years, and I don't have a server, but something really stinks here. The sheeps and goats in this quagmire will be the GPL purists vs the any code that works pragmatists. And will Microsoft start WWWIII by dropping a patent lawsuit on Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc if they don't sign similar deal, like Novell? Maybe the decks do need to be cleared once and for all - otherwise the cold war will continue.

Tenacious D in Classico

It's World War II all over again

My Heart was in my mouth. Novell has chickened out. And endangered the GPL.
The Novell/MSFT non aggression pact smells very much like when Hitler and Stalin signed a very similiar deal nearly seventy years ago. Microsoft is free to sue Red Hat, Ubuntu, et alia and Novell will supposedly benefit by signing on their users. And then when those competitors are near vanquished, Microsoft will train its sights on Novell.
It's World War II all over again.
I'm no longer supporting (sniff sniff cry cry) SLED or any SUSE Linux products.