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____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 09 November 2007 23:18 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all
>> | the announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell
>> | stresses interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent
>> | protection.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the
>> | deal as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did
>> | the deal to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no
>> | fiduciary duty to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor
>> | against the Linux market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to
>> | kill that competitor.
>> `----
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>>
>
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
>>
>> At least Novell is still good for something...
>>
>> SCO vs. Novell: The bankruptcy wars
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | So it is that every time it appears that SCO's cases are finally coming
>> | to an end the company seems to find a new way to continue its
>> | litigation. The bankruptcy court's ruling on whether SCO can be sold
>> | will be SCO's next critical test. If the deal with York is allowed,
>> | SCO's Unix and Linux litigation seems certain to continue for at least
>> | another year. This SCO soap opera is far from over.
>> `----
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>> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6535488710.html
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>>
>> Related:
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>> Speaking of Linux and the spirit of open source
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Novell doesn't need to urinate in the pool from which it hopes to build
>> | its future, but that is precisely what it is doing. It can and should do
>> | better.
>> `----
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>> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9788233-16.html
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>>
>> Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing
>> | a non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with
>> | Windows, appears to have escaped Novell.
>> |
>> | In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does
>> | not; Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
>> `----
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>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
>
> My take of this is as simple as this... Novell has NO CHOICE but to side
> with microsoft. Since joining with Microsoft, they have been loosing...
> everything... Everything from quality of product, service and most
> important of all credibility with linux users. That last
> item, "credibility" was their bread-and-butter. With out it, they'll
> eventually dry up and die. What choice does Novell have but to go with
> Microsoft? It will go like this... Novell will side up with MS, trying to
> stay afloat...and when MS realizes that having Novell around really isn't
> working out right... MS will dump the Novell bones into the trash bin...
> sucked and stripped clean...
A rumours says that 1,100 layoff are on their way. Novell should hopefully meet
the grave without taking GNU/Linux and Free software /with/ it. Shareholders
only care what they can suck out of corporations, so Novell is dangerous.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Data lacking semantics is currency in an island
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