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I already did: Novell paid $210m for SuSE, plus $50m they got from IBM. SuSE was always a key (if not the key) KDE "customer" and sponsor, beyond Trolltech. Tha
by toyg 4y ago
I already did: Novell paid $210m for SuSE, plus $50m they got from IBM. SuSE was always a key (if not the key) KDE "customer" and sponsor, beyond Trolltech. That was big money, back then.
- hitekker 4y ago
- Arnt 4y agoIf that's about me, I was in bed asleep. You posted that at six in the morning, in my timezone. $210m is lowish price for a company with several hundred tech employees and a fine list of enterprise consulting customers. A friend who worked at Suse at the time described it as "a reasonable price for just the consulting division".
- ognarb 4y agoAnd just after SuSE was brought almost all the KDE dev working at SuSE got fired.
- Arnt 4y agoA friend who worked at Suse at the time described Novell's price as a fair price for just the consulting division plus nothing for the rest. I don't remember that $50m or what it paid for.