Novell hopping with news, but it’s not all good
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| But the news wasn’t all good for Novell: Astrum Inc., a Texas startup now
| headed by two former Novell employees, for example, filed a suit against
| Novell for breach of contract in connection with the development of a
| mini-operating system appliance. The scuttlebutt is that Novell has dumped
| the partners in favor of a more established company.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/27/linux-hopping-with-product-news-a-lawsuit-and-positioning-maneuvers/
Recent:
Novell slapped with suit for new mini-OS
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| Astrum Inc., a software security company in Carrollton, Texas, has filed suit
| against Novell Inc. Astrum claims that Novell violated its contract regarding
| development of the mini-operating system appliance that Novell launched last
| month. Novell’s JeOS or Just enough Operating System, is a miniature version
| of the SUSE Linux Enterprise OS, which was created to help independent
| software vendors develop or deploy new SUSE-based applications easier and
| faster.
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| Filed in U.S. District Court in Texas’ Eastern Division, the lawsuit contends
| that the two companies entered into a mutual nondisclosure agreement on Oct.
| 25, 2006, to develop the software appliance but Novell violated the agreement
| by revealing confidential information to partners and customers. Then, after
| the prototype was successfully tested in November 2007, Novell engaged rPath
| of Raleigh, N.C., the following April to create the appliances based on SUSE
| Linux Enterprise.
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| The suit alleged breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, common
| law misappropriation, misappropriation of ideas and promissory “estoppel,” or
| broken promises.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/19/novell-slapped-with-suit-for-new-mini-os/
Should We Boycott Microsoft? Can We?
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| Except that it's not quite that simple. Microsoft's vision of “live and let
| live” is predicated on its continuing use of software patents, and of the
| open source side letting Microsoft and Novell handle all the tiresome
| implications for open source. In effect, though, this amounts to recognising
| Microsoft's patents, and accepting its “solutions” for the open source
| community. “Live and let live” turns out to be tantamount to accepting
| Microsoft's right to file, own and use software patents, which, in its turn,
| means accepting they apply to the open source world.
|
| [...]
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| Above all, it will send a message to the company that the open source world
| is not falling for the old “embrace, extend and extinguish” trick, and that
| if Microsoft really wants collaborate, "live and let live" is simply not
| enough, because of the asymmetric bargain it implies. As a basic
| pre-condition of working together with open source, the company needs to
| accept free software's absolute foundation – the ability to share all its
| code in any way and with anyone – and that, by definition, means no software
| patents whatsoever.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/should-we-boycott-microsoft-can-we
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