The Lonely Voice of Dissent at Novell's BrainShare
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| Only a handful of reporters attended the briefing across the street
| from BrainShare where software developer Bruce Perens criticized
| Novell's relationship with Microsoft. He said the results of the
| partnership could doom Novell to becoming a Microsoft subsidiary
| because Novell does not write its own software but gets it instead
| from small independents.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56462.html
Related:
Novell-Microsoft agreement delays GPLv3
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| Although the FSF soon judged the agreement technically legal under
| the current version of the GPL, Eben Moglen, general counsel for
| the FSF and the principal legal architect for GPLv3, is quoted
| as saying, "Our strategy is to use GPLv3 against the deal."
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/15/2123200&from=rss
What Novell could learn from Google
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| In short, Google may have been willing to accept a legal fight in
| order to protect its ability to mine video for money, yes, but also
| to protect fair use rights for video on the Internet. If true, very
| laudable.
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| And very different from Novell's actions vis-a-vis Linux. Novell
| claims to want to sell and proliferate Linux. But it has taken the
| exact wrong strategy to do so. Instead of protecting Linux and
| standing up for its integrity, Novell has slandered its reputation
| with its dubious Microsoft pact. However Novell may want to color
| it, the agreement implies that Linux is "Unclean!"
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| A better strategy, then, would have been to stand up to Microsoft,
| rather than to lie down and grovel before it. This would have made
| Novell a champion, rather than the pariah it has become. There is
| precedent for this, too, as Novell stood up to SCO in a similar
| situation several years back.
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| You can do better, Novell.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/what_novell_cou.html
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