I still fundamentally disagree with Novell on some of the the things it has done (e.g., the patent covenant with Microsoft), but I think it’s getting better, and I believe some other things that it is doing are truly positive developments (like the opening up of the openSUSE development process).

In short, I’ve become more open to Novell’s perspective, but not due to any pressure.

That said, I *do* appreciate Roy’s perspective, even when I strongly disagree with his conclusions. It’s important to hear all sides. Including Microsoft’s. Including Roy’s. That’s how we figure out what’s right: the thing that makes sense after hearing all sides is truth.

Isn’t that exactly what you do? You take a large piece of an article, look for the small piece that fits your ideals and then post that part. When your post is scrutinized and rebutted you call us hecklers. As I have said before, you have every right to voice your displeasure with Novell but you can’t just make things up or take things out of context and not expect people to rebut your arguments.

But not enough time to fix the blog post above which is still making nonsense suggestions shown to be false.

Priorities, priorities…

What is plainly also clear is that the people running this site don’t have any interest in actually solving the problems,

http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=237

they’re just hoping Novell are going to somehow disappear at some point.

I wonder who they’ll move on to assassinating next if that happens

And I find their Moonlight player problematic as well: if Fedora are not willing to include that in their distribution, that’s worrying.

So it’s not like there aren’t issues which need to be addressed. But these are needles in a haystack of “ZOMG Novell videos on Youtube!” and crass stories on GNOME, Ubuntu, etc.

What is plainly also clear is that the people running this site don’t have any interest in actually solving the problems, they’re just hoping Novell are going to somehow disappear at some point.

It doesn’t appear to be hard – to my mind, anyway – to remove the fiction without getting rid of the stuff which actually does have merit (e.g., the patent moves in Europe).

Absolutely – but not under the heading of “Boycott Novell” surely? At that point it’s another “No more swpatents plz” site. Not that you can have too many of those. Not that BN has much to do with Novell that isn’t fabricated.

I think the issue here is that amongst the small percentage of very good stories which appear here, there is a maelstrom of badly referenced rubbished.

It doesn’t appear to be hard – to my mind, anyway – to remove the fiction without getting rid of the stuff which actually does have merit (e.g., the patent moves in Europe).

Or is it your hope that people read it in the article and skip over the comments where it was debunked?