Comments on: Why Novell is Bad for Linux: Reason #100 (Virtualisationovell-only)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:50 +0000

Those whose datacentres may have Hyper-V due to ‘convenience’/preinstallations/bundle deals. Not everyone gets to choose the technology. Remember Netscape?

By: Sid Clink

Sid Clink — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:24 +0000

There’s no reason to worry about not having other flavors of Linux on Hyper-V. There’s other hypervisors out there that are plenty capable of running Linux (VMware, Xen). If MS doesn’t want to support Linux on their hypervisor, who cares?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:33:59 +0000

Hey, no worries. I had to carefully rewrite my words just to ensure it’s seen as polite.

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:31:41 +0000

Sorry Roy, I don’t know how I managed to miss that you have already commented about that article in this post.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Wow. Thanks for the headsup. I’ll post about it shortly.

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:44:39 +0000

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lubi/+bug/129611

More mono infestation of ubuntu

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:29:38 +0000

Novell's Linux isn't truly a a property of Microsoft and probably never will be. To Microsoft, it's mainly about control. It's about controlling the price and capabilities of rival products, e.g. making them subjected to "Microsoft tax" and incompatible with virtualisation technology on Server 2008. The key word here is control. Microsoft: everything is under control.

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:43:31 +0000

Novell/SuSE = Microsoft Linux

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:38:15 +0000

You can try to help by supporting Bruce.

http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Boycott_Novell_Support_Bruce_Perens_Fight_Against_Invasion_of_the_Borgs

Novell is also a major funding source in the Linux Foundation. It’s a trapdoor for Microsoft to have influence on Linux, which Novell helps it make a cash cow.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:35:22 +0000

Thanks, Victor. I quoted exactly the same bit above and gave two more prior examples. These include Novell’s help for Microsoft Windows in HPC and even marketing. Then there’s Silverlight indeed, among so many other things.

Novell and Microsoft do mutual favours and thrive in exclusion (as in “if you’re not with me, then you’re against me”). Unless you’re a Noveller, you cannot trust Novell. I believe we will see much better examples of this in years to come. See the links to Shane’s old pieces of analysis. He saw that coming before everyone else.

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:34:19 +0000

You do realize that how dangerous it is to put Novell people in the Gnome board or into other FOSS projects…

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:30:39 +0000

Every Novell/SuSE Linux box sold will put money directly into M$ pocket.

Novell/SuSE is M$ version of Linux.

SuSE = M$ Linux.

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:28:37 +0000

Let me tell you that Novell is M$ company. Microsoft is running it now. It is not a Linux company at all…

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:18:53 +0000

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007593o-2000469549b,00.htm?new_comment

Novell is happy with Hiper-V….

“We’re pleased with Hyper-V,” says Justin Steinman, director of Linux marketing at Novell. “SUSE Linux is a first class guest on Microsoft Windows Server.” Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has shown SUSE Linux running as a guest, which was “cool”, said Steinman.

But hey “Novell is one of the good guys”, doing “a lot of work for FLOSS” and “in no way they want to make split Linux by trying to make the rest a second class citizen” …

We had the moonlight debacle, the OOXML debacle and now this, yet there are still people who ignored the issue, I just hope this hiper-v thing wakes people up.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:01:51 +0000

Thanks. Please help by posting.There are so many dirty tricks to keep track of and so little time.

About Novell’s hypercalls, you’ve kept a closer eye than I did on this. You also gave Novell some spanking over this in their PR blog.

By: Shane Coyle

Shane Coyle — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:12:57 +0000

Actually, If memory serves me right, Novell took out a patent license regarding hypercall and such from Microsoft as a part of their now famous deal, which is why it’s just SUSE I would guess…

boy, haven’t been around much lately – the place looks great, I like what you’ve done with it Roy ; ^ )

By: CoolGuy

CoolGuy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:01:04 +0000

@victor

Money

By: Victor Soliz

Victor Soliz — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:37:24 +0000

I wonder why people still don’t believe that Novell is attempting to give its distro anti competitive advantages over the rest who wouldn’t want to pay the MS tax, after all Novell has been doing since Moonlight to Hyper-V…