Open Source breaking barriers
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| Today, though the two approaches hold on to their principles, they see a need
| to co-exist. That was the strong message that emerged from this year’s Open
| Source Week India — one of the largest open source event held at Bangalore,
| started by Forum for Open Source Initiative in India (FOSI).
|
| [...]
|
| Surely, the presence of Microsoft, viewed as the chief proponent of
| proprietary model, in the event is the sign that times are changing. Sandeep
| Menon, Country Manager, Novell India, points to the collaboration his company
| has got with Microsoft that allows Windows and Suse Linux to become
| interoperable with Windows platform, particularly in enterprise segment. “A
| few years ago, any suggestion to this effect would have been laughed off,”
| said Sandeep.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb132008/cyberspace2008021251906.asp
Related:
"Microsoft seems to have hijacked Linux Asia"
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| Was the general feel amongst the attendees at Linux Asia 2007;
| MS however, just wanted to say ''let us walk hand-in-hand''
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http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107020104.asp
Novell's .Net moment
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| Novell has struggled to compete in the open-source world. Combining with
| Microsoft hasn't helped. So why not, as Dave suggests, link up with
| Microsoft's .Net code to build an ecosystem around it that would complement
| Microsoft's own efforts to do so?
|
| [...]
|
| Let's face it: there are still hordes of developers out there who love
| Microsoft and would probably prefer to create open-source projects
| around .Net instead of Java or the LAMP stack. Novell could orchestrate this
| since Microsoft appears to have a PR problem with doing so.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9867460-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell: 'No One Can Stop Us From Selling Linux'
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| It was reported that those changes would preclude the inclusion of Linux in
| third party distribution deals such as the one Novell recently signed with
| Microsoft and "ban" Novell from selling future versions of Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197003452&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
All sides of the debate?
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| How many sides are there in the OOXML debate? What if all sides are Microsoft
| and Microsoft business partners?
|
| [...]
|
| Dough Mahugh (Microsoft) :
|
| Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all
| sides of the document format debate, including a document interop session
| with Miguel de Icaza (Novell) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft) that I
| expect will offer a lively discussion around Open XML, ODF, and XML-based
| interoperability in general.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29108/all-sides-of-the-debate
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
|
| [...]
|
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
Available Now: OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Windows
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| Let's consider a couple of the features that you get in the Novell
| Edition but are not likely to have been integrated into upstream OOo yet:
|
| * Excel VBA Macro execution
| * Performance improvements
| * AGFA fonts
| * Better Bullets (now in upstream OOo)
| * Simple Solver
| * GroupWise integration
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http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/ooo-novell-edition-now-available-for-windows/
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