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____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 07:01 : \____
> On Mar 16, 9:58 pm, Homer <use...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
> One big driver for the move may have been this:
> <quote>
> As El Reg reported last week, Novell has, after more than six year,
> finally got its SUSE Linux support business at breakeven, and it is
> managing to pull out some profits even as its revenues continue to
> shrink as the NetWare business that made it a powerhouse in systems
> software in the late 1980s and early 1990s collapses.
> </quote>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/03/novell_elliott_take_private/
>
> Novell has seen the Linux market continue to grow quarter after
> quarter, starting to offset the huge losses it's getting on NetWare.
What the article doesn't tell you is that key losers at Novell (like Jaffe and Hovsepian)
sacked many SUSE developers to meet this "balance".
SUSE used to be a leading distro, but it is becoming more of a trainwreck
(compared to other distros) as time goes by and followers hop to other
distros. It's because of Novell's collaboration with Microsoft, /against/
Free software.
>> > | Even the due diligence process could
>> > | threaten Microsoft. Singer is going to get
>> > | a look inside that 2006 agreement.
>
> My only hope is that this isn't another hair-brained attempt to file
> crazy groundless lawsuits based on ownership of Linux.
Microsoft already implicitly endorses Apple's patent attack on Linux (Android).
Microsoft and Apple are patent 'partners' (cross-licensing).
>> >http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5987
>
>> Microsoft shouldn't mind that, right?
>
> Having Novell privately held, makes things very unpredictable. When
> Novell was publicly held, they had to report, they had to list
> directors, and they had to report earning accurately. As a privately
> held company, you don't really know who the fund owners are, who is
> running the company, and what the real motives are.
>
> I keep thinking of Daryl McBride's offer to run SCO for what seemed,
> at the time, to be a ridiculously low salary.
Singer ('Elliot') has distant connections with Icahn and other hawks.
> Rex Ballard
> http://www.open4success.org
>
>
>> After all, if they've done nothing wrong, then they've nothing to hide.
>>
>> Hehe.
Novell is one scary carcass. What would the vulture fund (sorry, I mean "hedge fund") do with
the team of Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza - the team that has just announced bringing
.NET to Android?
There are too many thugs in this game (Jobs, Ballmer, Gates, Singer, McBride) and to expect
clean play would take great discipline. See what stories Schwartz exposed last week.
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