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To: antiRepublicrat
BTW, don't you mean "American-owned foreign companies like SuSe"?

Of course, I said "trojan horse" if you missed that part. What does SuSe offer us, in all reality? They've never even made a profit I don't believe, have been projecting one 'next year' forever. Now the free software whiners will be constantly pestering Novell to "open source" everything, just like they do Sun and Red Hat. Those two companies have done more for open source than Torvalds and Stallman, but the fanatics would just as soon burn them at the stake because they charge for some (now most) of their stuff.

19 posted on 11/06/2003 3:53:02 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
What does SuSe offer us, in all reality? They've never even made a profit I don't believe, have been projecting one 'next year' forever.

They never offered anything. That's why they went downhill and got bought-out.

but the fanatics would just as soon burn them at the stake because they charge for some (now most) of their stuff.

The movement has its fanatics, and I believe we have an equal dislike for them. Some of these people have not grown up to the point where they realize there is real business involved here.

20 posted on 11/06/2003 3:56:53 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
Of course, I said "trojan horse" if you missed that part.

Yep, totally missed it. I wonder why Novell bought them. Maybe they have lots of support contracts hanging out there? Maybe to get an inside foothold in the EU?

21 posted on 11/06/2003 3:58:25 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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