Novell is a prominent organiser/sponsor of FOSDEM 2009

FOSDEM accepts money from Novell and some attendants are therefore unhappy

The following FOSDEM 2009 talk shows that Novell not only ignores the GPL but that it also disregards other licences that it disagrees with

Novell is trying to lock Red Hat out and away from its very own customers, formal letters of complaint dispatched by Red Hat

Novell is losing its UK distributors and there is little hope for rebound based on the financial situation and general trend

Microsoft focus at Novell is revisited now that SaX2 is put aside and FOSDEM gives Mono a room

Yesterday we wrote about Novell’s news from China and warned that Microsoft and Novell had begun to share some more vocabulary. Several more articles have since then been published to cover the new announcement, including this one.

SCO is definitely beyond this Web site’s scope, but recently there has been a great deal of Novell in that saga. There are things there which have future implications on Novell, SUE Linux [sic], and other GNU/Linux distributions. We covered some of the latest in last week’s cumulative report, so let’s look at more recent articles and consider portions of them.

Tightening of the belt has seemingly paid off for Novell. The enterprise earned 38 million USD in the last quarter with Linux products. Novell’s turnover for the third quarter this year is lower than that of the third quarter last year, but the figures are still in the black. Novell closed out 2009’s third quarter with a profit of 17 million USD.