Why Novell is like Napster-era Metallica
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| Drawing a parallel to Novell, the company went from being a player in the
| Linux market, to an open source pariah as the focus changed from the software
| to their pact with Microsoft. Add to that the fact that Novell handled the
| situation rather poorly (with more obnoxious details filtering out all the
| time) and you find a company that lost its way. The big question if Novell
| can turn the ship all the way.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13846_1-9801428-62.html
Related:
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| 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.
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| 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/
Selling your soul is clearly worth the money (Novell)
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| I am not even interested enough to finish this post. The whole thing is just
| so lame.
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| We've already covered this plenty of times for those of you who think I am
| picking on Novell.
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| Previous:
| The other 20% on Novell or, When interop isn't
| Picking apart Novell's Linux numbers (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)
| Novell - Microsoft Agreements Revealed
| Reading between the lines with Bill Hilf: Microsoft must really be hurting
| Ignorance (of open source), thy name is Microsoft
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/09/selling_your_so.html
Perens blasts Microsoft/Novell "protection racket"
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| Salt Lake City -- In a small conference room across the street from
| the location of Novell's BrainShare conference, free-software
| advocate Bruce Perens attacked Novell's patent deal with Microsoft
| and said that Novell was enabling Microsoft to run "a protection
| racket" with the threat of its patents.
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| [...]
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| More than that, though, Perens said, if the Novell-Microsoft patent deal is
| allowed to stand. It would take only as few as "two or three intellectual
| property law-suits" of open-source developers or small business at a cost
| of at least $5 million dollars a pop, to destroy open-source development.
| So, from where he sits, Novell is running a "protection racket" with "Big
| Mikey" as the enforcer
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9126255519.html
The Novell-Microsoft Wheeler Dealers Speak
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| But the main takeaway, as they might put it, for me
| is that this is an anti-Red Hat deal, and Novell is thrilled about that.
| Justin Steinman reveals that to market their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
| against Red Hat they ask, "Do you want the Linux that works with Windows? Or
| the one that doesn't?" It's just appalling. Let me ask you developers who are
| kernel guys a question: When you contributed code to the kernel, was it your
| intent that it be used against Red Hat? How about the rest of you developers?
| Is that all right with you, that your code is being marketed by Novell like
| that? I also have questions about antitrust issues, with Microsoft being
| Novell's partner in such deals and sales pitches. Nothing speaks louder about
| Microsoft's true determination never to be actually interoperable than this
| conference.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070930081040440
How much is Microsoft's patent protection worth?
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| Novell has a duty to the community to sell its excellent open-source software
| for what it is: excellent open-source software. It should not (as it does -
| I've talked with its salespeople - and which it has gone on the record as
| noting that it does) use lame patent FUD and equally lame patent protection
| to sell that software. It does not need to. We don't expect better of
| Microsoft - it has been competing this way for decades. But we should expect
| and get more from one of our own.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9788106-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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