[NTLUG:Discuss] red hat server revisited

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Michael wrote:
> Ummm.....
> 
> SuSE was bought by Novell last week.
> 
> I haven't chased down what this means in dollar terms, but I'm expecting 
> SuSE's next version to have licensing terms very similar to those proposed by 
> SCO's death threats. 

OK, I'll bite.  Why do you think that?  I haven't seen anything reported 
anywhere in that direction.  Don't forget that Novell has not been friendly to 
SCO.  Even Redhat (in their current madness :-) isn't doing licensing like that.

Note, that I'm not saying don't watch Novell carefully, but I've really seen 
no evidence of them saying they want to kill/restrict/whatever Suse's products 
by changing the licensing agreement.  Can you point to a source for that?

> 
> This leaves Mandrake, Slack and Debian  the main trunks of free linux.

You don't consider Gentoo a "main trunk"?  Guess it depends on how you define 
"main". :-)

Kevin


> 
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:58 pm, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 
...
>>I think you just missing a little bit of faith. :-)  SuSE also has an
>>Oracle certified version.  Personally, I've give that a good hard look;
>>they don't charge yearly fees IIRC.  I really don't think you have anything
>>to worry about with Novell buying SuSE.  Novell *needs* SuSE to work and
>>grow, witness IBM's $50M help as a show of support.