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Looking BackwardsâLooking Forwards
http://www.novell.com/ctoblog/?p=186
Novell - Software Patents = Success
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| I find it hilarious and interesting that
| Novell considers a large number of software
| patents as a good thing. It seems to use
| this as a measure of their success. This is
| against the community belief that software
| patents are bad and immoral. This is a
| dangerous idea when you consider how much
| free and open source software is written by
| Novell. How much software could they force
| us not to use because of patents?
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http://www.pwnage.ca/?q=node/12
The Innovative People of Novell
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| Inventive people who write more
| software patents per capita than
| anywhere else.ï
|
| Software patents: A Novell metric for
| success.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/the-innovative-people-of-novell/
Well, maybe they can make Microsoft MVP de Icaza the new CTO... would
be a good fit foe Novell...
Microsoft exhausts coupons for SUSE Linux
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| Microsoft has distributed nearly all of the
| US$240 million worth of SUSE Linux
| Enterprise Server subscription certificates
| that it purchased from Novell as part of a
| 2006 patent indemnification pact, the
| companies said.
|
| [...]
|
| Controversy surrounding the indemnification
| agreement inspired a provision in the GNU
| General Public License v3 that bars similar
| patent agreements going forward.
|
| "Generally speaking, most software
| companies have attacked each other with
| patents; software patents are quite a drain
| on productivity of the software industry in
| this regard," said Bradley Kuhn, a policy
| analyst and tech director at the Software
| Freedom Law Center, which provides legal
| services to Linux companies.
|
| "But I am not readily aware of anything
| specific between Novell and Microsoft
| before their deal. If it was a large enough
| dispute that it made it to court, the court
| records would presumably show if there
| was."
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http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34094
Wanted: Community Manager
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| Brockmeier has done a pretty good job while
| at Novell, coordinating the community and
| marketing efforts around the popular
| openSUSE distro. It goes without saying
| that getting him on board lent a lot of
| legitimacy to Novell's business deal with
| Microsoft in 2006. Brockmeier has a lot of
| respect in the community, so when he calmly
| explained why Novell hadn't made a deal
| with the devil, people listened.
|
| I personally did not like Novell's decision
| to partner with Microsoft--in particular
| the patent protection agreement that
| prompted a knee-jerk response from the free
| software community to change GPL v3 during
| its draft phase. At the time, I voiced the
| opinion that if Microsoft wanted to have
| integration so badly, it could do it
| without patent cooperation agreements.
|
| [...]
|
| It will be interesting to see who lands in
| the now-open Community Manager spot at
| Novell. Those are going to be some big
| shoes to fill.
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http://www.itworld.com/open-source/94750/wanted-community-manager
Constant Zonker
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| I was mildly interested to see if Joe
| âZonkerâ Brockmeier would continue to
| spread his special brand of so-close-to-a-
| lie-why-not-just-call-it-that distortions
| once he left Novell. Well, now we have an
| answer:
|
| Yes.
|
| And â brace yourself for a shock here â he
| is targeting the FSF. Again. This time
| around, though we are treated to simple
| poor reason instead of the previous gross
| misrepresentations of Monsieurs Stallman
| and Moglen.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/constant-zonker/
Recent:
So long and thanks for all the Geekos!
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| January 31st will be my last day with Novell.
|
| I've given it a great deal of thought, and
| decided that it's time to move on.
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http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2010/01/25/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-geekos/
Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight
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| To say that Microsoft and Novell have a muddy
| history when it comes to open-source projects
| and the GPL would be an understatement.
| Things were looking up, with the release of
| the open-source implementation of
| Silverlight, Moonlight 2, last week, but
| today things took a turn for the worse:
| Novell has just cut all the open source code
| from MonoDevelop.
|
| The implications of this aren't immediately
| clear, nor can we be certain of what Novell
| and the Mono development team have in store
| for us. All we know is that Novell has
| decided to lock Moonlight development up in a
| stricter, more-commercial LGPLv2 and MIT X11
| license: generally it's a bad thing when free
| things become non-free.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/12/24/novell-and-microsoft-cut-out-the-gpl-cancer-from-open-source-sil/
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