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Story: New SuSE Linux to debut next month

Posted by: adebayo omo-dare (Tuesday 30 September 2003, 5:35 PM)

I think I loved it more when there was only one bundle that contained everything; allowing users to continue to control their destinies in a sea of abundant choices.

Soon we will all be seeing cut down releases with names such as Personal, Professional, Professional Personal, Personal Professional, Enterprise Net Professional Personal, Professional Personal Enterprise Corp and whatever other title can be dreamt up in order to improve corporate prospects by leaving Linux in the rain, beating its chest in anguish like a sterile baboon at the height of the mating season....

Good for sales, bad for users... Open access to software facilities usually leads to improved efficiency/abilities/utility.... Lack of such access usually leads to increased dependancy....

The route that most Linux distibutors are taking, one believes, will do no less than lessen the abilities of those who will chose to take up Linux in future by not allowing them to fully experiment with the system they take up....