Open source and free software methods have been tested on the real world with success multiple time, to call them idealistic stuff is not serious talking now in 2007 – soon to be 2008.

So, you mean Novell is not rewarding MS for patent trolling ?

Novell is actually capitalising on it. Masie (Novell head), for example, described Microsoft FUD as a competitive advantage and Novell continues to use that as a selling point.

Last week I was told that GNOME was going to use OOXML ‘support’ as a competitive advantage as well. I haven’t seen any concrete proof of this claim, but IIRC, it’s sometime that Jeff (or somebody else) said in Slashdot.

Everyone wants to be a friend of “Big Mike” (to borrow Bruce Peren’s story), then hope to receive a shiny penny in return.

Be aware that you are replying to the pseudonymous, nymshifting ‘eet’, which is patrolling Novell blogs on the face of it. I don’t think he’s astroturfing though.

Absolute and irresponsible nonsense.

So, you mean Novell is not rewarding MS for patent trolling ?

I notice that there’s a group of people that would like the deal to go unnoticed and blame the people that talk about it for dividing the community or being irresponsible. I must state that the non-sense is coming from you, the division nature of the Novell-MS patent deal and , the imitations that followed and Novell’s own attitude against Linux after the deal are harmful. Threatening people that go reporting the wrong doing by calling them divisive or poisonous is not going to make the deals go away.

Gnome foundation has made a mistake, I am glad that the Linux community is not a bunch of sheep that would avoid criticizing its leaders just avoid some “division” ghost.

I am not sure if your message is just some irresponsible copy paste, this blog post does not seem to have anything to do with your holy community.

Roy, are you trying to divide the community again? Despicable enough if you continue to insult developers and, in a broader sense, everyone working on GNOME; but please, leave the community alone.

Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from a known (eet), pseudonymous, nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.

I had hopes for Novell until they went and pulled this crap.

D.