[TriLUG] Novell purchases SUSE

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On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:46, 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.
> 
> >
> > On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 04:15  PM, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> >
> >> the letters N-O-V-E-L-L spell D-O-O-M for SUSE and KDE.
> >
> > What does any of this have to do with KDE?

While I see Novell changing SUSE's default desktop to gnome, there is no
reason to believe that they will stop shipping KDE with it. And I've
seen plenty of Toyotas at Ford dealerships... they are just second class
citizens (used :)

-Lee