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Is Novell losing Linux? No, it's just bad reporting
Commentary: Blame Jim Finkle at Reuters, I suppose. His story
is the one that started this large dung-ball of misinformation rolling
around the Internet. You know the one, about Novell losing the right to
distribute Linux.
The Reuters story quotes Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free
Software Foundation, as saying, "The community of people wants to do
anything they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it.
They have every reason to be deeply concerned that this is the
beginning of a significant patent aggression by Microsoft."
Finkle goes on to say, "Novell angered members of the
open-source community that develops Linux and other free software
programs in November when it entered a wide-ranging business deal with
Microsoft."
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Posted by linuxwiz on Tuesday, February 06 2007 @ 12:17:50 EST (687 reads)
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Novell Could Be Banned From Selling Linux: Group Claims
The Free Software Foundation is
reviewing Novell's right to sell new versions of
Linux operating system software after the open-source community criticized Novell for teaming up with Microsoft.
BOSTON - The Free Software Foundation is
reviewing Novell Inc.'s right to sell new versions of
Linux operating system software after the open-source community
criticized Novell for teaming up with Microsoft Corp.
"The community of people wants to do anything they can to
interfere with this deal and all deals like it. They have every
reason to be deeply concerned that this is the beginning of a
significant patent aggression by Microsoft," Eben Moglen, the
Foundation's general counsel, said Friday.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Tuesday, February 06 2007 @ 09:08:59 EST (589 reads)
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Novell Loses Right to Sell Linux, Says Software Group
After Novell tied-up with Microsoft, it has lost the right to sell new
versions of Linux operating systems, a member of the Free Software
Foundation has said.
It may be remembered that Novell had tied
up with Microsoft, a proponent of paid software, to sell open software
products. It hailed the decision as far reaching and beneficial to the
industry.
The free software foundation controls the intellectual property of the open-source Linux operating system.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Tuesday, February 06 2007 @ 07:06:54 EST (976 reads)
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Novell could be banned from selling Linux - group
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell
Inc.'s right to sell new versions of Linux operating system software
after the open-source community criticized Novell for teaming up with
Microsoft Corp.
"The community of people wants to do anything
they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it. They have
every reason to be deeply concerned that this is the beginning of a
significant patent aggression by Microsoft," Eben Moglen, the
Foundation's general counsel, said on Friday.
The foundation controls intellectual property rights to key parts of the open-source Linux operating system.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Saturday, February 03 2007 @ 09:37:08 EST (430 reads)
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The Free Software Foundation vs. Novell?
According to a recent
Reuters report, the FSF's (Free Software Foundation) board was going to
be looking into Novell Inc.'s rights to continue selling its version of
the Linux operating system. That's not actually what's will be
happening. Eben Moglen, the Software Freedom Law Center executive
director and FSF board member, explained: "This is a story being hyped
by the Reuters guy who wrote it."
The Reuters quote was: "The community of people wants to
do anything they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it.
They have every reason to be deeply concerned that this is the
beginning of a significant patent aggression by Microsoft."
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Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 21:15:58 EST (846 reads)
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The Microsoft/Novell Deal: Has It Divided The Linux Community?
When Microsoft and
Novell announced that they would work together, Linux enthusiasts were
shocked. How has the agreement affected the open-source community, and
can it recover?
In November, 2006, Microsoft and Linux vendor
Novell knocked the software industry for a loop with their
multifaceted, multimillion dollar business agreement unveiled. However,
the biggest effect may be on Linux, the open-source software operating
environment that many companies (and some consumers) are increasingly
adopting as an alternative to Microsoft's proprietary but pervasive
Windows operating system.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, January 25 2007 @ 10:17:22 EST (513 reads)
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Time for Novell to Settle the SCOre
I'm overjoyed that with Microsoft, Sun and greedy investors bailing out
of bailing duty, SCO's ship is sinking fast from the holes it punched
in its own hull. IBM's role as anchor is finally proving effective, but
the torpedo boat is captained by Novell's frighteningly accomplished
legal team, ably assisted by the SCO litigation squad, F Troop.
SCO Group is going down. Microsoft Sun
and the greedy investors that abetted SCO in its campaign to loot Unix
and Linux vendors and their customers have abandoned ship.
Microsoft's enterprise competitors and their customers gave SCO the
leverage to mug said vendors' customers for license fees when vendors
refused to drop their wallets in court. Sun and Microsoft animated SCO
as the prototypical litigious IP boogeyman in order to terrorize
competitors' customers into switching to Windows or Solaris to avoid
being hauled to court. That's how I laid it out in 2003, and I stand by
it now.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Sunday, January 21 2007 @ 08:22:19 EST (485 reads)
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Thirty pieces of silver
The ends justify the means. That's a favourite saying of those
who feel that the destination, not the means of travel, is more
important.
But in the world of free and open source software, as we've seen before,
this does not tend to work well. When people chuck principles aside and
indulge in short-term thinking, they tend to get bitten hard someplace
down the road.
When Novell signed a deal with Microsoft
in November last year, it infuriated a large number of veterans in the
FOSS community. None more than Bruce Perens, creator of the open source
definition, the manifesto of the open source movement. That apart,
Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative, the Linux Standard Base -
and he wears plenty more caps. In short, he is one of the founding fathers of a movement that has grown at an astonishing pace.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, January 19 2007 @ 10:23:39 EST (385 reads)
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SCO Responds to Novell FUD
Is SCO going bankrupt?
Novell Monday made that claim in a legal filing, asking for a partial summary judgment in its three-year-old battle with SCO over ownership of Unix copyrights.
Novell
asked the court in to provide the judgment because SCO is going
bankrupt, and claimed that it is not to blame for SCO's financial
calamity.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 06:37:25 EST (487 reads)
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Novell Looking for Acquisition Targets?
Matt Asay
recent blogged about how Novell might be in the market to make an
acquisition this year in the virtualization space. He lists XenSource
and Altiris as possible targets.
If Novell wants to maximize the potential of their Microsoft
alliance and bring about a scenario like Canonical founder, Mark
Shuttleworth, outlined in a recent Red Herring interview...
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Posted by linuxwiz on Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 17:09:31 EST (611 reads)
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Novell: We're a 'mixed-source' company
Novell's controversial pact with Microsoft reflects the desire of
the number two Linux seller to position itself as a mixed-source
company.
Speaking to ZDNet Asia last week, Maarten Koster, the
newly-appointed president of Novell Asia-Pacific, noted that the
company positions itself in the market differently from its rivals.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, December 29 2006 @ 08:46:36 EST (501 reads)
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Novell CEO on the Microsoft deal
The landmark technology
collaboration agreement between Microsoft and Novell took a
controversial twist when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer later proclaimed
that Linux customers have "an undisclosed balance sheet liability"
because Linux "uses our intellectual property." Novell CEO Ron
Hovsepian provided his views on the ensuing controversy, along with a
behind-the-scenes account of how the agreement was reached. Excerpts
from that interview.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, December 21 2006 @ 07:11:39 EST (1192 reads)
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My own private Microsoft-Novell survey
Shockingly (Shockingly!!!) a Microsoft-Novell-commissioned survey reports that the world would end tomorrow but for the pact. Never mind, as Matthew Aslett notes,
that one-third of the respondents had never even heard of the deal. (I
guess background knowledge of the deal was not a prerequisite for
taking the survey - I thought that was Survey 101, but apparently only
if you're trying to get an accurate read.)
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Posted by linuxwiz on Wednesday, December 13 2006 @ 11:56:57 EST (563 reads)
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Novell turns to statistics
You know that a company is on its last legs trying to prove
something when it turns to surveys in order to drive home a point.
Novell has reached that stage in trying to plug its deal with Microsoft.
Today we have a survey, jointly sponsored by Novell and Microsoft
(nowadays that's quite common), to measure how customers feel about
interoperability between vendors. That's taken to mean that the same
percentage approve of the entire deal which Novell struck with
Microsoft on November 2.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Wednesday, December 13 2006 @ 09:06:09 EST (1879 reads)
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Payback time for Novell
The Novell/Microsoft pact might just be a plea bargain to avoid Novell's wrath over SCO
SCO group is going down. Microsoft, Sun, and the
greedy investors that abetted SCO in its campaign to loot Unix and
Linux vendors and their customers have abandoned ship. Microsoft’s
public endorsement of SCO’s legal action against, effectively,
Microsoft’s enterprise competitors and their customers, gave SCO the
leverage to mug said vendors’ customers for license fees when vendors
refused to drop their wallets in court. Sun and Microsoft animated SCO
as the prototypical litigious IP boogeyman in order to terrorize
competitors’ customers into switching to Windows or Solaris to avoid
being hauled to court. That’s how I laid it out in 2003, and I stand by
it now.
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Posted by linuxwiz on Wednesday, December 13 2006 @ 07:14:34 EST (462 reads)
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