Comments

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-08-11 01:48:51

  Groklaw has been brought down to its knees by the huge level of interest in this article.

• shane coyle

  2007-08-11 21:09:24

  Huh, you'd think they'd be able to handle the load since IBM was propping them up this whole time with their deep pockets.
  
  (that is a joke, SCO made that claim at one point because Groklaw is/was hosted on Ibiblio which is supported by IBM, so laugh.)

• I Love Novell

  2007-08-11 22:18:16

  Thanks for the laughs, this is my first time polluting my desktop with the drivel you two spout out...You sound like a pair of religious fanatics similar in thread to the fanatical Muslims who would kill there own rather than co-exist with a difference in opinion or belief. When this all boils out and Novell is found to be a righteous player in the FOSS community ( a place I already give it) how red (Novell Red) will your faces be? Seriously , If Novell were under MS control why not topple it the day after assuming the ability? Linspire seems to be going that way according to you. No the reality is Ron (my personal hero) is finally bringing Novell back from the dead, he is making the company provide solutions to co-exist with the sleeping giant rather than poke it in the ass with a hot stick, like most of the OSS community does. Did neither of you take or pass world history,remember WWII ? Now that Novell owns both a Linux company and Unix it can start dictating to MS what it wants in order to allow MS to live through the incoming tide of enterprise ready OSS based on what eventually will be the combining of the two. There needs to be a place in the world for all those C# people to work when MS is half its current size. So what if Novell wants to back engineer a "patented" technology like .Net with MONO, good for it, SAMBA hasn't hurt Linux any has it? There is only one reason Novell is paying anything to MS, it's simply to let MS save face. MS has AIDS , it can take all the meds it needs to stave off the inevitable, but in the end some complication due to the fact that MS contracted the disease will in the end kill it. You should really change this sites name to: "boycottintelligentchoices.com"

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-08-12 01:18:18

  @ "I Love Novell": Read the about page. Making religious or political comparisons would lead you nowhere. Novell bent Microsoft's way. The deal gave Microsoft more control, not less. What's worse is Novell's damage to whoever surrounds it, including itself.

• Dev Null

  2007-08-22 23:24:50

  What is the damage? Please don't spew crap just because you hate Novell. You sound more like a total moron, even with your PhD seeking efforts. Novell opened the way for big companies to allow Linux in their datacenters. The Linux community needed the foot in the door. We all know, MS wasn't going to sue anyone, Novell knew that, it simply allowed MS to safe face. Again, Novell paid $40 mil to MS, and MS paid $340 mil to Novell, use your PhD seeking experience to figure that one out. Let's stop the Jihad Stallman philosophy, it's really a bunch of crap. A simple example of what I'm saying is what Linux Torvalds says about GPL v3, it's BS. read his comments here: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.2/index.html#2071