[TriLUG] Novell purchases SUSE

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Tue Nov 4 16:52:13 EST 2003


Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> Novell is a GNOME company, they bought Ximian.  You know that Novell will
> not distribute KDE, thats like asking a Ford Dealership to sell a Toyota. 
> Its not going to happen.

Why wouldn't it happen?  There's no reason for them not to distribute
KDE.  They're not going to just throw away that expertise.  That would
diminish the value of what they just bought.

Tanner
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