When Eric Schmidt left his job as the chairman and CEO of Novell to become the top executive at Google in 2001 he privately told journalist John Battelle that one of the things he was looking forward to was no longer competing with Microsoft.
Read more »Sanity check: Has Eric Schmidt finally outmanuevered Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer?
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Ballnux on HP Laptops: Fail
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When Hewlett-Packard first announced that it had made SLED 10 its choice for a low-cost laptops, we were not very surprised because of the solidarity there is between Microsoft and H-P (Dell raises some doubts too).
Read more »Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor?
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Novell is working with Microsoft to help Microsoft cooperate and contribute to open source projects under open source licenses, and sticking with the existing standards to do so. Keen observers of the tech industry might note that this is a bit of a rarity, but it’s something that I hope we’ll see more of from Microsoft.
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Intellectual Duopolists, Intellectual Oligopolies and Intellectual Mono
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What’s increasingly found these days is diplomacy that leads to reformation of old-age Trust, where companies like Novell are invited to join the Microsoft ecosystem provided that they share the same pool of software patents. It makes these two an “Intellectual Duopoly”.
Read more »In Microsoft Speak, “Open” Means No GNU/Linux or FOSS Support
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Both Microsoft and Novell can be accused of harming perceptions of “Open Source”. Novell seeks justification by clarifying that it really is a mixed-source company, whereas Microsoft shoves the word “open” everywhere it deems possible.
Read more »How Microsoft and Novell Make GNU/Linux More Expensive to Purchase Than Windows
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Novell’s recent news about China [1, 2, 3] is pretty significant because this shows what tricks Microsoft and Novell hope to make more widespread and prevalent around the world, not just in Asia. It’s a symbolic start that illustrates just why Novell has become dangerous to GNU/Linux adoption (contrary to common belief).
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Bill Gates Ridicules the GPL While Novell Mops Up with Software Patents
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There is no substantial news here other than development of discussions, which seem to spread fairly fast from one blog to another blog and soon onto the press. To repeat criticisms from yesterday about Novell’s announcement on China [1, 2], Novell and Microsoft keep spreading software patents to all parts of the world (never mind the legality), using SUSE Linux (Ballnux).
Read more »When Microsoft Shenanigans and Novell Stomp on Your Open Standards
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Who could possibly turn his/her back on Document Freedom Day? Ask Novell. Its Vice President prematurely celebrated OOXML while everyone else marked the triumph of open document formats, with ODF.
Read more »Feels good to admit it... we're all running GNU/Linux (video)
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This is a Novell ad where a PC user and a Mac user talk about their cool new features... we'll then there's a twist
Read more »Boycott Novell Support Bruce Perens' Fight Against "Invasion of the Borgs"
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Several months ago we wrote very extensively about Microsoft’s motives in joining the OSI. By following the links, you can locate old posts that obviate the need to repeat old arguments. Bruce Perens, as you are probably aware, is one of the louder and best-known protesters against the Microsoft/Novell deal. He continues to focus on this issue, which he has not forgotten.
Read more »HP to sell Linux laptops and PCs
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HP is planning to introduce desktop and laptop computers that come with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system preinstalled.
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Consolidated openSUSE forums by spring!
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Novell will be merging 3 forum sites (suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com) to a new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org. This will give openSUSE users a one-stop shop for their problems and ideas.
Read more »Those who forget Santayana...
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I'm talking about Novell's November 2004 antitrust complaint against Microsoft, filed shortly after settling an different, OS-related, complaint with Microsoft for $536 million. You can view the second complaint, which I'll call the "WordPerfect" complaint, here [PDF] on GrokLaw.
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Novell hits jackpot in Microsoft patent pay-out
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The extent of Microsoft's generosity to its open-source patent partners has been revealed in Novell's latest financial statement.
Read more »How open is Open enough?
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We have seen the signs that changes are happening. Not just specifically in the Linux world, but in Open Source, Open Standards and in the proprietary world as well.
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