Novell massages the numbers
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| Novell is also good at PR. It has been talking about desktop Linux being just
| around the corner for years, without delivering anything worthwhile. No
| wonder I get such a hit to the numbers here for mentioning Ubuntu.
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| This continuing game of massaging numbers and expectations, rather than
| delivering solid performance or solid software, hurts the whole open source
| market.
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| Having covered Novell for two decades, I’m frankly tired of it. Wall Street,
| not so much. As long as there is action Wall Street is happy.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1380
Here is a press release from Microsoft (Novell and de Icaza grab attention):
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQW07105092007-1.htm
And then there's the article...
Microsoft Launches Silverlight With Full Linux Support
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| Novell's Miguel de Icaza heads up the company's Moonlight project, which has
| ported the Silverlight player over to Linux using open-source tools from the
| Mono project.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/09/microsoft-launc.html
Will all Linux users be required Mono to access the Web now? Instead of
fighting XAML, Novell helps it. Same with OOXML. Sellouts.
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