[CLUE-Talk] Interesting times: Novell acquires SUSE

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:58 am, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:45, Jef Barnhart wrote:
> > Hmmm...
> > Just thinking out loud.
> >
> > Novell buys Ximian.
> > Novell buys SUSE.
> >
> > How long will support for KDE last and at what level?
>
> Or, alternatively, could we see a Ximian KDE?
>
> I really hope that SUSE doesn't ditch KDE, I really prefer KDE to
> GNOME... it would also be a major pain for SUSE to switch YaST2 and the
> other stuff to GNOME. I would like to see Ximian bundled with SUSE,
> though. I really like the additions they've made to OpenOffice --
> they're mostly cosmetic, but the difference in look and feel with OOo as
> done by Ximian are pretty significant.
>
> Zonker

Novell is on a buying spree. If they decide to stay (or enhance ) with KDE, 
they will go after the trolls.
 Most likely they will cut a deal with Canopy to buy their share of trolltech 
or they will cut a deal with trolltech to invest more.
Remember Canopy and Novell are funny neighbors with all sorts of interesting 
relationships.
In fact, with the relationships extending down to Colorado city, it is 
possible that their is a lot of relationships.


- -- 
cheers
g.r.r.
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