Comments on: Novell States Its Case

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:23:20 +0000

The Microsoft deal was irrelevant. I said so at the time, and that’s how it has played out. Nobody cares. All Microsoft got was a little FUD and managed to trip over their own feet by giving people more reason to go Linux.

At this point, Microsoft has bigger fish to fry than Linux anyway. If they can’t get Yahoo, they’re never going to compete against Google. In fact, even if they do get Yahoo, they STILL won’t be able to compete against Google. And when potential large Web site customers realize Yahoo and Google and Amazon don’t run on Windows, Linux will gain again.

By: FreeToSpeak

FreeToSpeak — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:28:00 +0000

I dont get it, why bash a company that is one of the key sets behind Unix / system 5 and in all Linux. you might not agree, but linux would never have come into live without Unix being first. they have been round the system, and i can see them comming round again. just give them a chance, in all its good for everyone. we dont need just one OS, we need many. but they must be stable, clean and most of all usable. Novell has this and does a good, no very good job of it. Give it a rest with the bashing and try supporting, its rather a nice change to see.

By: JadedEye

JadedEye — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:05:09 +0000

Nice to see some balance even though Dragoon and the VAR Guy still don’t agree on everything. The bash Novell camp needs to find a new pinata

By: nanotech

nanotech — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:16:19 +0000

Well my two most used distros are SLED/SLES/SuSe and Ubuntu. CentOS comes in a distant third. RH priced themselves out of my area (nothing against RH) SuSe/Ubuntu has better drivers out of the box; I could care less if some are “closed”. I need jobs done and business to run… face it they are still better than MS proper. If we could have more support from hardware vendors (I wouldn’t give away my tech either, but I would contrib framwork) even if “closed” we could see more Linux usage and more apps for business

By: Boycott Novell » Software Patents and Standards are Inherently Incompatible

Boycott Novell » Software Patents and Standards are Inherently Incompatible — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:44:07 +0000

[...] is a mishmash of patents and bridges. We have just taken a second (and later) look at a page where Novell tries to “state its case”. The couple of new comments which have been added since the last time are very revealing: # Guy [...]

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By: W. Anderson

W. Anderson — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:33:37 +0000

I surely hope Mr. Dragoon of Novell would not try to insult the intelligence of citizenry by implying -through omission – that Novell’s business upturn fortunes without the Microsoft deal moneys have had no effect on companies who deal with Novell solely because they value the Microsoft insurance – some call extortion tax – via Novell.

Unfortunately nothing appears to be changed from the very naive and deceptive approach Novell has taken in regard the whole Microsoft patent tax issue.

I can attest to the fact that a consulting associate client’s hotel property in the Caribbean was willing to switch from RedHat to Novell Suse only because of their concern about reprisals from Microsoft. Such decision had nothing to do with any superiority of products or services form Novell, which they found to be lacking.

Therefore I still consider Novell a leech and parasite not only on GNU/Linux technology but the worldwide community and the Free/Open Source Software spirit as well.

W. Anderson
wanderson@nac.net

By: Guy

Guy — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:19:28 +0000

Quote: “ask most IT directors and they’ll tell you the msft/novl relationship is good for their business”

But at what cost. The deal seems to imply that there is truth in the ms allegations about copyright infringment. Novell gains are at the community’s expense.

By: Boycott Novell » Novell Still Kisses Bloggers’ Behinds for Positive Publicity

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:27:31 +0000

[...] about Novell, a writer saw Novell reaching out. The PR department took it upon itself to have a little chat with Joe. Give Novell credit. Rather than slamming The VAR Guy for a particularly harsh blog post [...]

By: novl fan

novl fan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:03:31 +0000

some members of the open source crowd spend a lot of time bashing novl. but some of the moves are completely misunderstood. ask most IT directors and they’ll tell you the msft/novl relationship is good for their business.