Re: [school-discuss] Fwd: A Landmark Announcement

[Shane Coyle <shane@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simple. Boycott Novell.  They will go the way of SCO. 

This is MS going after Oracle's deep pockets, and Novell gets to knock out all 
competition and secure an up-front payment as well as ownership of the linux 
market, which MS will allow to remain a small healthy percentage to stave off 
antitrust allegations-  A nice little lapdog for MS, that they actually 
derive revenue from in perpetuity, nice.

MS propped up SCO against IBM, but the sticker was IBM has never distributed 
linux and Novell claimed its own rights over the contested "IP"
.  SCO has no case, and is rotting on the vine.  Even if Novell gets to 
finally see SCO in court, there will be no SCO left.  Novell has been seen by 
the community as a defender, and has steadily caught up to and surpassed the 
leader redhat in terms of enterprise linux offerings.  Honestly, SLED was 
probably the best enterprise distro out there, imho.

Now, days after Oracle threatens to not only destroy redhat and SuSE in the 
enterprise space with its Unbreakable Linux and support (including 
indemnification from ip litigation - $chaching$), but actually threaten MS 
and its trainwreck Vista in the enterprise (imagine not having to upgrade all 
of your hardware just to run a slightly more secure OS), we hear about this 
Novell-MS partnership - expect them to go after the first big Oracle 
customer, and then when Oracle steps in on their behalf - watch out.

That's my two cents, but I only get a penny for my thoughts, so where does the 
other penny go?

-shane




On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:18, àààààààââ|Praveen wrote:
> 2006/11/7, Michael Bendorf <bendorfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > So, I'm sure that some on this list run a Novell network (as we do at
> > Carlinville CUSD#1).
> > I am in wanting of comments/questions/concerns/opinions on this.
>
> Novell-Microsoft: What They Aren't Telling
> You<http://technocrat.net/d/2006/11/2/9945>
> By Bruce Perens
>
> "There are two significant announcements. First, that Novell and Microsoft
> are entering into a patent cross-license, and second, that Microsoft is
> promising not to assert its patents against individual non-commercial
> developers. The bad part is that this sets Mirosoft up to assert its
> patents against all commercial Open Source users. There are also some
> little bonuses for Microsoft, like Novell will help Microsoft turn back the
> Open Document Format and substitute something Microsoft controls.
>
> When we say "commercial", it's interesting to note that there are really
> few non-commercial users: people who only use their computer for a hobby.
> Buying something on a web site, for example, is a commercial use. Most
> individuals use their computers in some aspect of making their livelihood.
> There will now be a Microsoft-approved path for such people to make use of
> Open Source, an expensive subscription to Novell SuSe Linux that costs as
> much or more than Microsoft Windows and that comes with a patent license."
> Full article at http://technocrat.net/d/2006/11/2/9945

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