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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by KDE User on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @11:05

Hahah, where did you find that snarky comment from? Basically it's a rather humourous potshot at Ximian from some high-ranking SUSE developer.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by ? on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @11:15

Yep. I got that, it's even one of the founders of SuSE. But I wonder why he's leaving SuSE and blaming Ximian for it. This looks like serious trouble, as in 'SUSE or whatever they call it is doomed'.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by KDE User on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @11:21

Isn't it obvious? Ximian has been playing a dirty game of politics internally at Novell. I thought this was already well-known. A lot of people are not quiting over this.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by ? on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @11:25

Yes, but when key people who would be able to resist are quitting, it means that the Ximian guys are applying that old tactic of 'if you can't outsmart them, disgust them', so that finally they'll be the only ones left.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by KDE User on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @11:52

I meant "now" not "not" in my previous post. I think the point is that people within SUSE do not see any hope. Novell is a lost cause and a company very few take seriously these days. Why should the SUSE people spend any more of their life there if they can do better?

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by ml on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @12:03

Makes sense. But SUSE 10 is so good, it's vastly better than all distros/releases I've seen.

Of course, there's no point in continously waiting for the next bad/desperate decision of the Novell folks.

So my question was, what do I migrate to? :)

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by Segedunum on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @00:57

It's good because of KDE and all the KDE oriented people at Suse have have given it polish and a splash of colour.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by ac on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @12:19

Novell == SCO for me. I treat them with the same respect from now on. Poor Novell suckers. I think Novell started killing off their own business. No money will ever stop the complaints coming from users and open source enthusiasts. The people in the world will from now on totally trash the name Novell. It will be set equal with the pigs from SCO, they will be treated the same way and their entire name will be worth nothing pretty soon.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by ml on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @12:27

Not quite, my friend Winnetou, you see, SCO is a pig farm while Novell is just a bunch of geese (how do you call many noisy geese looking for a way out in English? Is it a flock?)

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Really OT: Collective noun for geese
by Ralph Jenkin on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @12:57

Believe it or not, the correct term is a gaggle of geese.

No, really.

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Re: Really OT: Collective noun for geese
by ml on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @13:02

After a gaggle of googling I believe you.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by Ragnarok on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @01:30

* Novell == SCO for me.

Well, then it's good news that no-one cares what you think, outside of the small collection of flamers and irrational idiots on dot.kde.org, of course.

*The people in the world will from now on totally trash the name Novell.

Ahem, don't you mean "you" will totally trash the name Novell.

* It will be set equal with the pigs from SCO, they will be treated the same way and their entire name will be worth nothing pretty soon.

The infidels will be punished! Death to Novell! All you need now is a backpack full of explosives and a train ticket to Novell HQ. Get a grip will you.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by ac on Friday 11/Nov/2005, @02:28

> Well, then it's good news that no-one cares what you think

Why did you reply then ?

> outside of the small collection of flamers and irrational
> idiots on dot.kde.org, of course.

Welcome in the club then.

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by AC on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @18:09

"Novell == SCO for me."

It's rather Novell == (R.I.P.) Corel. After their faux pas with switching to Gnome, I have no doubt now that Novell will end up like Corel. Similar incompetence and lack of focus of their decision makers. Corel went ahead against MS, Novell has decided to go against Red Hat and Sun. Also, both received (settlement) money from MS ;-)

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Re: OT: And what is this supposed to mean?
by sd on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @04:13

Chris Schlaeger seems to have left too. Ok, so I've made up my mind. This is a dead dog.

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