linux.conf.au: What is Novell doing here?
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| I also raised the issue of Novell employees like Miguel de Icaza and Nat
| Friedman who appear to be pushing further and further to duplicate
| technologies which Microsoft has developed and offering totally unconvincing
| explanations as to why they are doing so.
|
| [...]
|
| These arguments notwithstanding, it is a fact that overlooking what Novell
| has done tends to dilute the whole message of FOSS. Novell, obviously, is
| hoping that, as public memory is woefully short, it will be able to wriggle
| its way back into the community. Providing such leeway is, in my opinion, a
| big mistake.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16042/1090/
Related:
Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Microsoft Making Millions Off Novell Linux
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| Evidence is emerging that Microsoft is making money, lots of it, from
| selling 'certificates' for Novell's SUSE Linux. Microsoft gained the right to
| distribute the certificates a little more than a year ago under a marketing
| and technical alliance with Novell.
|
| [...]
|
| So, while Linux -- free software that competes with Windows -- may still be
| a "cancer" for Microsoft, the company has found a way to profit from it.
| That's a good trick . . . perhaps Microsoft should next enter the
| pharmaceutical market?
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/microsoft_makin.html
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| [Allison: ] "Yes, that's true, actually. I mean I have had people come
| up to me and essentially off the record admit that they had been
| threatened by Microsoft and had got patent cross license and had
| essentially taken out a license for Microsoft patents on the free
| software that they were using [...] But they're not telling anyone
| about it. They're completely doing it off the record."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/11/1443211.shtml
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
Why is there no Open Source SLES ?
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| One of them is that the SLES community is much smaller and more aimed at
| proprietary software. Novell itself is promoting Mixed Source and promotes
| its own proprietary software on top of SLES (also see OES). This obviously
| scares part of the community away. The deal with Microsoft obviously does as
| well. As a result Novell is big within Enterprises with little community
| people, and these are not the kind of people that would spend their free time
| rebuilding packages and do QA.
|
| Another reason is that Novell is not in favor of such a project (even though
| people from within Novell _and_ people in the SLES community disagree with
| management) because it fears it will take away some of the profit and Novell
| made a big risk by taking the Linux route, they cannot afford to make it
| fail.
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http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/why-is-there-no-open-source-sles
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| 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
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.
|
| 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/
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