Comments on: Canonical Gets New Chief Operating Officer Who Already Defends Microsoft’s Biased ‘Search’ http://techrights.org/2010/02/06/asay-joins-canonical/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/02/06/asay-joins-canonical/comment-page-1/#comment-81035 Roy Schestowitz Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:30:20 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26460#comment-81035 Novell was put in the wrong hands when people like Hovsepian and Steinman started attacking Red Hat rather than collaborating with it (instead collaborating with Microsoft). Novell was put in the wrong hands when people like Hovsepian and Steinman started attacking Red Hat rather than collaborating with it (instead collaborating with Microsoft).

]]> By: a v http://techrights.org/2010/02/06/asay-joins-canonical/comment-page-1/#comment-80893 a v Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:23:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26460#comment-80893 The man isn't that bad. Look at this part of his intervew with LWN.net at 2007 july 6. http://lwn.net/Articles/240877/ What were your first thoughts when you heard about the Microsoft-Novell deal? I was extremely disappointed because if there's any company that didn't need to do that, it was actually Novell. Because Novell has patents that go to the heart of both Microsoft's Windows Server business and its Office business. Novell was under absolutely no threat of ever being sued by Microsoft, period. The reason they did it is to try to club Red Hat. Novell thinks it has an interest in destroying Red Hat; really what Novell needs is for Red Hat to continue to be successful and for Novell to learn how to be successful with Linux. I just remember thinking: Here's Novell. It's best chance of surviving in the future is to move toward more of an open source model, and it's just basically told the very community that could feed it that it didn't want it. It was cutting itself off from its future. I think it's done itself irreparable harm now. I just think Novell will have a very hard time ever gaining credibility again as an open source vendor. The man isn’t that bad.
Look at this part of his intervew with LWN.net at 2007 july 6.

http://lwn.net/Articles/240877/

What were your first thoughts when you heard about the Microsoft-Novell deal?

I was extremely disappointed because if there’s any company that didn’t need to do that, it was actually Novell. Because Novell has patents that go to the heart of both Microsoft’s Windows Server business and its Office business. Novell was under absolutely no threat of ever being sued by Microsoft, period.

The reason they did it is to try to club Red Hat. Novell thinks it has an interest in destroying Red Hat; really what Novell needs is for Red Hat to continue to be successful and for Novell to learn how to be successful with Linux.

I just remember thinking: Here’s Novell. It’s best chance of surviving in the future is to move toward more of an open source model, and it’s just basically told the very community that could feed it that it didn’t want it. It was cutting itself off from its future. I think it’s done itself irreparable harm now. I just think Novell will have a very hard time ever gaining credibility again as an open source vendor.

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