On Friday 26 November 2010 12:03:38 Debayan Banerjee wrote:
What does this mean for openSUSE? It used to be my favourite distro. It is definitely a very competent distro in its own right although people hardly mention it in India.
On an individual level, maybe not much. But if you are a business, individual or not BEWARE. M$ screws it's own customers, and would be very happy to screw those who arent.
As a dveloper, the writing is on the wall. As the computing environment matures and everything reduces to a deeply fragmented commodity market, companies with 4digit profit percentages will have no leg to stand on. In the past they simply folded or merged into something else without much noise. But now they use every possible tactic to drag everyone and the dog with them.
Interestingly big ballmer has sold off huge chunks of his shareholding in M$. Bail out before the rats start biting.
In all this RMS seems to be a real seer. Groklaw's Pamela Jones goes as afar as telling the kernel guys to wake up and start thinking about GPLV3. V3 was dismissed as a US centric problem/solution.
It does not seem to be staying that way.