Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'novell'

"While there have been various responses to the analysis—including this LWN comment thread—there has, as yet, been no real counter-analysis that comes to a different conclusion." - this is the answer to a previous question i received on why i considered Meeks' post interesting.

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Greg Kroah-Hartman’s Linux Ecosystem « We’ll see

"As the opening keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference, Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a talk entitled 'The Linux Ecosystem, where do you fit in it?' There were, let’s say, a few elements of it which I found objectionable."

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september 2008 by sogrady

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derStandard.at

interesting interview with Novell's Michael Meeks; notable for the comments on Sun, copyright assignment, Go oo, and so on

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Red Hat's new CEO aims Linux at the cloud | Business Tech - CNET News.com

interesting interview with Whitehurst on a number of levels

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Nat Friedman › We're Hiring

Nat's hiring for some interesting spots at Novell

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Ubuntu chief picks panda over penguin, while Microsoft rolls Novell | The Register

i will now officially change my name to Stephen O'Bloggy

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april 2008 by sogrady

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MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal - LinuxWorld

interesting to see Miguel this outspoken on the subject. one wonders if there are wider implications.

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Linux.com :: GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement

<sigh> i was hoping i could skip this one, as it seem clear cut from where i sit, but i guess it's more nebulous than i'd hoped

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Law & Life: Silicon Valley: Patent Troll Fire First Volley at Open Source

Mark Radcliffe with a brief take on the Acacia patent litigation

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Red Hat, Novell sued for patent infringment | The Register

here we go...

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

knew peripherally of some of these complaints, but hadn't seen them expressed so explicitly

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / Simon Phipps and Moonlight give me an excuse to post a cool picture

"License says ‘you can use it without restrictions…but the patent license says…as long as you get it from Novell.‘ If you...can live with that sort of uncertainty, go for it and use Moonlight; if you can’t, well, don’t say you weren’t warned

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'Cross-Platform Microsoft' - OSNews.com

"Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I’ve heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms..." Microsoft takes my advice 2 yrs later

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / GPL v3, the Q&A: part 3- companies

another excellent segment of Luis' continuing GPLv3 analysis

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june 2007 by sogrady

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hello to you!: Microsoft's Silverlight on Linux via Novell

Daniel is not a fan, i take it

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Novell worries that GPL 3 could foil Microsoft pact | CNET News.com

i'd be concerned too, if i was Novell

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Blog | rlove

"I am jubilant to announce that I have accepted an offer of employment from Google" - excellent hire for Google, and significant loss for Novell

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may 2007 by sogrady

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derStandard.at

interesting interview with Novell's Friedman; been missing his take for a while

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Mono JIT Developer. - Miguel de Icaza

Miguel's hiring as well; jobs to work on cross-platform .NET compatible JIT compilers don't come along every day

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Simon Phipps, SunMink: LiveMink: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel remains one of the more interesting folks in the industry, to me; great interview from Simon (listen to his answer re: would they create Mono if Java had been open sourced) - as an aside, i thought it was mig-ELLE, rather than mig-WELL

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Ballmer repeats threats against Linux | CNET News.com

these threats are growing very tiresome; rumor has it this presentation wasn't well received, incidentally

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february 2007 by sogrady

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» The ultimate revenge? Novell’s Allison to join Google | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

"Allison: I'm off to Google. I start in the new year." - Matt chided Allison, asserting that he should stay and fight the good fight at Novell - i disagree, and think this could be a good move for him

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog » quick thoughts on novell, blogs as journalism, etc.

Luis' also debunks the "forking" call re: Novell and OO.o

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Zarro Boogs found. » Firefox and Linux

an excellent stab at a thorny problem; seems like it would have been more authoritative with some Debian/Ubuntu representation - still, progress is progress

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december 2006 by sogrady

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OpenOffice Forks? - Miguel de Icaza

Miguel responds - aggressively - to PJ's piece on the 'fork' of OO.o

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Groklaw - Digging for Truth

Novell is not exactly OO.o's best friend these days, what with Florian's reassignment, but i think this is piece is a reach

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december 2006 by sogrady

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[Hula-general] Hula status

"The quick synopsis is, Novell no longer has anyone working full-time on Hula." - i'd heard this, but was waiting for confirmation; tough to see the project in this state, as it began with a lot of promise

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Microsoft patent deal could leave Novell behind - Computer Business Review

my first though on hearing some of the GPLv3 saber rattling was that it wasn't likely due to the friction b/twn the kernel.org guys and the FSF, but this is a good reminder that there's more to Linux than the kernel

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november 2006 by sogrady

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[compiz] road map

really need to check and see what the governance is vis a vis compiz, but in the meantime here's the roadmap for future

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Groklaw - Novell Speaks - Updated

"In any case, the deal is falling apart, I'd say." - tough to argue with this position in light of the various corrections and clarifications that continue to emerge

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

"is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability." - wow

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Linux users to Microsoft: What 'balance sheet liability'?

"Like many IT executives, I took great offense to Ballmer's comments," Strasnick wrote in an e-mail. - so it wasn't just us analysts that think MSFT should step up if they've got something to say

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november 2006 by sogrady

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interest in Mono post-Microsoft deal from a 'Softie

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Log for November, 2006

Havoc's not happy w/ the Microsoft/Novell deal

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog » more thoughts on MS and Novell (with a dash of Oracle, Sun, and Ubuntu)

Luis is speaking for a lot of people here; great points, and i'll hopefully have some follow up as well soon

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Novell and Microsoft Agreement - Frequently Asked Questions

Novell addresses additional post-acquisition questions; they needed to, questions are ripping around the various communities affected

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november 2006 by sogrady

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LWN: Various responses to Microsoft/Novell

continued LWN reactions for Microsoft/Novell

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november 2006 by sogrady

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LWN: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

more reaction to Microsoft/Novell deal from a Linux perspective

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november 2006 by sogrady

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foomonkey babble / Microsoft and Novell

foomonkey is not particularly excited about the news

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Ego Food: A short post on the Microsot/Novell deal.

wherein Chris responds to the MSFT/NOVL deal by offering opportunities at GOOG

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november 2006 by sogrady

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GrokLaw - The Morning After - Reactions to Novell-MS - Updated 2xs

appreciate PJ's kind words here, and would send them back; i don't agree with everything in here, but it's certainly comprehensive and has some great insights (see the section on your own software vs distributed, for example)

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Microsoft follows Oracle into Linux market: report - MarketWatch

lots of people are talking about this; i'll be on the phone with Microsoft in about 15 minutes to get the gist - more shortly

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

"It's pretty astounding that OO.o on Win32 takes 13 seconds to cold start, where MSWord takes ~3 seconds; in fact Word can cold-start quicker than we can warm-start, a little depressing." - Novell's Michael Meeks comments on the OO.o boot time

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Mono User and Developers Conference - Miguel de Icaza

hmm...i would definitely like to go to this. need to see if i can make that happen

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august 2006 by sogrady

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Software Wars

amusing graphic depicting F/OSS v Microsoft competition as a battlefield (via Michael)

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june 2006 by sogrady

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Ian Skerrett: Linux Distros Working Group

this is pretty interesting; i need to follow up with these folks to see what approach they'll be taking, as it could have wider significance

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may 2006 by sogrady

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AC/OS: Open Solaris at Linux's expense?

Asay's skeptical of some positive press for Solaris; there's some truth to what he says, but i think he undersells Solaris fairly significantly - it's not one or the other, there's room for both

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may 2006 by sogrady

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» Novell beats desktop Linux drum hard | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

maybe. but it's interesting; i'm hearing vendors besides Novell begin to say the same thing, not least because of what Ubuntu's been able to accomplish in a very short span of time

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april 2006 by sogrady

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gregdek: Fedora and Mono and OIN -- clarifications

why did Red Hat finally put Mono in Fedora? b/c it feels the OIN is a sufficient patent shield; interesting

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march 2006 by sogrady

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More .NET apps in Fedora Core 5 than Windows Vista?

never bought into the MS doesn't believe in .NET b/c Vista's native code arguments, but this is interesting (via James)

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march 2006 by sogrady

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Jaw-dropping Xgl demo at Jamin

if you want to get an idea of what Xgl is capable of, watch this - just wish it had sound

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february 2006 by sogrady

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Xgl and Compiz - Sebastian Bergmann

the new Novell eye candy OpenGL based X server running on Gentoo

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february 2006 by sogrady

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NLD10 and GNOME

link to one thread exhibiting some of the frustrations w/ GNOME and the recent Novell announcements

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february 2006 by sogrady

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NOVELL: Xgl

this is the stuff they were working on last time i stopped by the Novell offices in Cambridge - would love to see this on my desktop soon

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february 2006 by sogrady

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blog.trowbridge.org » I’m Feeling Lucky

Google gets one of the v good GNOME/Novell guys - congrats to DiBona and co.

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december 2005 by sogrady

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Novell backs down over Linux desktop

Techworld.com, November 15th, 2005

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november 2005 by sogrady

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‽ SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

definitely disagree with Dana here; while i would absolutely agree that the SuSE engineers are excellent, the disrespect for some of the ex-Ximian folks is way off base, IMO

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Luis Villa's Blog

according to Luis the KDE/GNOME split at Novell is now over

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november 2005 by sogrady

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‽ Corel confirms OpenDocument commitment. Novell's "in" too. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

good to see Corel backtrack from its criticism of the ODF; both for the sake of the format and for Corel

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october 2005 by sogrady

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OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Novell joins the TC; good news (via Erwin)

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october 2005 by sogrady

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BetterDesktop

this is fascinating stuff

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october 2005 by sogrady

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Michael Meeks interview :: Linux Format :: The website of the UK's best-selling Linux magazine

interesting interview with Michael Meeks of Novell on OO.o start times and the like

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september 2005 by sogrady

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Novell Investor Wants Company to Fire Employees, Sell Divisions

how would this help, exactly?

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september 2005 by sogrady

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Blog | rml

senor Love hacks out a bit of code access the harddrive accelerometer (?) in newer Thinkpads; Lenovo? you listening? help these guys as much as you can

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Open Source Marketing with Reverend Ted: Travel Fiasco with United Airlines

bed bugs? seriously? i've had some bad travel issues, but they're nothing compared to bed bugs

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Miguel de Icaza on Mono, scalability, J2EE, Microsoft Indigo, and why ASP.NET does not succeed at the highest level

interesting interview with Miguel, who apparently did a very solid job at OSCON (can't wait to see some of the new bits)

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Miguel de Icaza

very disappointed to miss Miguel's deck - there should be some outstanding new bits to show; don't miss it if you're there all day on Friday