Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:44:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95.971002082648.46556B-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <199710020820.BAA24323@usr08.primenet.com>
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( My apologies also.... I hadn't noticed this thread was on -hackers, instead of -chat... ) I think there is little argument in saying that Linux is better now because Noorda sells it. Anyway (and this is just IMO), Linux's GPL makes it unsuitable for a _real_ commercial product because it is literally impossible to offer added value software at a low level (which is what commercial OS's do). Pedro. On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > And Noorda didn't leave Novell in a good position either...they seem to > > be getting better without him. > > BTW, it seems like the Groupwise client is a Java application :-) > > Noorda was forced out by Mar Burnside and the other members of "The > Office Of The President", a triumvarite of which Burnside was the > strongest member. > > Burnside was a bean-counter (accountant) who decided that the best way > to optimize short term profit was to milk the existing product line to > death without investment in new technology. That strategy has a 5 year > cap. > > Novell is doing better because of the retirement of the HP vice > president, Frankenburg, who never got over the V.P. "Yes man" stage > and thus let people like Mike DeFazio ride roughshod over him. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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