I wasn't going to post this here, however, with all the negative
discussion, maybe it needs to be widely read!
Fred
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Introducing Novell's Cunning Plan
When that marketing guy from Novell called me, I was expecting two
things. He would either explain me that I was wrong and that the
announcement did not mean what I and many others thought it meant, or he
would take an almost devilish tone and tell me that we, the imbecile
mass of the so-called community, were doomed and that now the big
corporations were back in charge of Linux. No way. He called me and
asked me -cheerfully- if I had enjoyed the announcement. He then told
me: « Charles, isn't it beautiful? We got them hooked up! We're breaking
the barriers and this will end up in a total disaster for Redmond. Linux
has won! ».
I was about to say something bad to this person but his very attitude
was showing ignorance, spontaneity, and above all, bona fide. This is
what stopped me being aggressive. I explained to him what the
announcement meant for me and as I had gathered, for many inside the
community. The man on the phone simply could not believe a word of it.
At some point, he told me that Novell could not be a traitor given the
amount of money they had invested in Free Software. And he was right.
Novell did not simply acquire Suse or Ximian. They kept the development
teams, push them more actively towards contributing to projects, freed
some code (YAST, Ifolder, etc.) created new ones, while beefing up their
teams on Gnome and OpenOffice.org. So this man, and to may other Novell
employees at every level I was able to talk to, the « treason » scenario
was met with awe and disbelief. Novell rightly bet its house on Linux
and OpenOffice.org.
http://www.libervis.com/introducing_novells_cunning_plan
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