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Is the deal harmful to Linux in general?

April 26, 2017deal Harmful linux

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Is the deal harmful to Linux in general?

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Understand that Novell have positioned themselves firmly as a Linux company over the last years. They’ve invested a lot of money in acquiring SUSE and Ximian and are investing a lot in developing and marketing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop/Server and openSUSE. Having many of the greatest free software developers on their payroll making sure they can focus on writing free software. They’re actively replacing Netware with Linux based Novell Open Enterprise Server. Novell’s strategy and future is almost entirely based on Linux. They would not do anything that they thought would harm Linux in general, that would be suicidal.