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IT veteran achieves perfect Zen through open source
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| It’s going very well insofar as we originally agreed to co-operate on three
| distinct projects and now we’re working on nine projects and there’s a good
| list of 19 other projects that we plan to co-operate on.
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http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/it-veteran-achieves-perfect-zen-through-open-source-1464710.html
Hack Week III: Tomboy Joins The Dark Side
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| Tomboy on Windows Where It Belongs
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| As you all know, my job here at Novell is to migrate all worthwhile desktop
| Linux applications off of that ridiculous platform and onto Windows so that
| we can do away with this nasty open source stuff. Unfortunately I haven't yet
| gotten the paper work to close up my code for the latest victim of this
| effort, so for now dirty open source hippies can get it here...
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http://automorphic.blogspot.com/2008/08/hack-week-iii-tomboy-joins-dark-side.html
Related:
Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Why is there no Open Source SLES ?
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| One of them is that the SLES community is much smaller and more aimed at
| proprietary software. Novell itself is promoting Mixed Source and promotes
| its own proprietary software on top of SLES (also see OES). This obviously
| scares part of the community away. The deal with Microsoft obviously does as
| well. As a result Novell is big within Enterprises with little community
| people, and these are not the kind of people that would spend their free time
| rebuilding packages and do QA.
|
| Another reason is that Novell is not in favor of such a project (even though
| people from within Novell and people in the SLES community disagree with
| management) because it fears it will take away some of the profit and Novell
| made a big risk by taking the Linux route, they cannot afford to make it
| fail.
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http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/why-is-there-no-open-source-sles
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
|
| [...]
|
| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
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| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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