I stopped using Suse when Novell got into bed with lucifer (M$). Who know's what STI's you could catch!

novell can keep it and suse well away from everyone... The same goes for any other distribution that goes so low...

The interesting thing is that they could easily lose all community support with such tricks... anything they provide patches for or bugs could be put at the far end of the queue, support would disapear etc...

I'm sad that that actually didn't happen would quickly put off m$ and others from trying such tricks...

They tried the same thing over 2 years ago

Take a look at the news release from Novell's 2005 BrainShare conference...

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2005/03/pr05024.html

Why do SMBs have to pay Novell loads of cash for a solution comprising software they can download themselves for free?

Hint: http://www.openoffice.org

Because the Novell Editon of OpenOffice comes with:

Support from Novell

Starts faster on Windows then the opensource verison

Has better VB support

Has the same common fonts as windows

Does not screw all my fonts/page margins up from word docs.

And 100s of other fixes from Novell engineers and the community which will make its way into the version on OpenOffice.org some time in the next year!

Novell are no angel but its history and enterprise skillset make Linux cool, hence why we are slowy able to migrate our clients off windows desktops.

We wouldnt be doing the migration work we are doing today if Novell didnt have a Linux Desktop or a version of OpenOffice!

Supported Linux, Linux thats enterprise and small business ready means more users and a smaller server and desktop share for Microsoft.

All good in my eyes.

So try the original StarOffice from Sun, which comes with

All what you said, but supported by Sun, not Novell / Micro$haft