Novell Screws Linux, Ballmer spews FUD
Our favorite monkey dancing vitriolic FUD spewing idiot, Steve Ballmer, finally speaks about the specifics of the MS+Novell deal.
Ballmer:
“Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody who uses SUSE Linux is appropriately covered,” Ballmer said. This “is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.”
Microsoft is giving Novell $440 million, and Novell is giving back $40 million to pay for patents that it thinks Linux is infringing upon.
Thanks Novell! You sold out the whole Linux community, who’s work you have been busy trying to use to resuscitate your dying business. No one who has been using Linux for more than one year was surprised by your actions, but now we have caught you with your hand in the cookie jar. And we have the proof we need to tell people why they should not use SuSE Linux.
At least I do not have to rebuild any of my servers or workstations, none of them run SUSE, if they did, I would have already formatted and re-installed with a better distro a long time ago.
If you use Linux, please boycott SUSE. If you currently use SUSE, please try a free alternative such as CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora. My personal combo is CentOS for severs, Ubuntu for Desktops.
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