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I am from germany. First of all, i don't think that there are many people who would dump suse because of this. As some one said here already, the vast majority in germany runs (the american) windows. In business, public and private sector.

But, there is a certain crowd.. and not only in germany.. i can imagine, that some of them dumped windows in the recent anti-american wave because windows is american. And if suse was for some of them the favourite distribution, they were possibly pissed off as novell bought suse.

But usualy this crowd doesn't run a business.
And such extreme anti-american people are relative rare in germany.

There is a place in germany for this certain crowd though. www.heise.de/tp

Telepolis! Its legendary. Heise.de is the website of the biggest german publisher of computer magazines. Heise.de is the german slashdot, with trolls a bit worse than on slashdot, but not much different. Telepolis on the other hand.. well. Its a online mag by heise. Run by journalists who are, compared to the regular heise staff, really on the left. I think they were harassed by the other members of the staff a bit too often..

But the really bad thing about telepolis are its forums.

This guy as example is lamenting, that the peaceful anti-war protesters are lame fucks, compared to their radical counterparts in iraq, who are doing the real job:

http://www.heise.de/tp/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=7602699&forum_i...

He got flamed for that posting though..

But don't worry, its not much worse than democraticundergound.com (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_to...)

And while articles on heise.de get sometimes over 10-15 pages of postings in the associated forums to the article, the telepolis ones get rarely over 2 or 3.


To go back to topic: I can imagine, that some telepolis guys, would dump suse because of novell. But there are not many.