Star SuSE takeover 'pushed customers to Debian'
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Mar 2005 21:38 UTC
SuSE, openSUSE CeBIT: The word in Hannover is that some German government agencies have switched their allegiance away from SuSE Linux, because following Novell's takeover it is no longer a German company.
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Exacly anonymous.
by dopey on Mon 14th Mar 2005 22:38 UTC

To all crying boo,

Think about it they have just ditched a US software company (MS) because ultimately thousands if not millions is pumped into the US economy, while the german IT sector could do with that money. So what do you decide ? pump money into an organisation in another country or pump it into a few local organisations which will in turn improve employment rates and also allows the local workforce to become more skilled. Its obvious why they would.

I think Debian was started in the USA, am I not right in saying this ? Which means that Germany isnt snubbing USA, but prefers to spend its money more wisely.

Also its a wise choice Debian is a definate excellent distro.