Summary: Despite projects like OpenSUSE, Novell promote proprietary software, spreads Microsoft APIs, and gives Microsoft anti-Linux ammunition
THE video above shows Novell and Microsoft as a pair, as usual. Those two companies are not rivals. In other recent videos about Novell [1, 2] we just see a lot of proprietary software advertising from Novell, which is more like Microsoft than Red Hat. Except for Novell's proprietary agenda and SLE* releases as described in the British technology press [1, 2], there's negligible OpenSUSE news (very little of it these days) and news about Novell's spreading of Mono. Some bits of news are a little more enlightening:
Gnote is a great choice because it’s lightweight and doesn’t have Mono as a dependency.
It is amazing that some people refuse to believe that Novell's .NET/C# advocacy is any different from its Silver Lie advocacy. It's about APIs, not just patents. The Hovsepian-led Novell is a parasite feeding on the GNU/Linux community in order to make itself richer by serving Microsoft agenda inside this community. Novell is most likely to give its patents to Microsoft pretty soon (another massive cash infusion for Novell and FUD infusion for Microsoft), so let's not pretend that Novell is a defender of the community. ⬆
Phoronix nowadays gets carried away; it made a new category to talk about slop and it decided to call it "intelligence" with some caricature of a brain (that's misleading)Phoronix nowadays gets carried away; it made a new category to talk about slop and it decided to call it "intelligence" with some caricature of a brain (that's misleading)
HTTP/2 added a lot of complexity (it's just a Google protocol, based on SPDY originally), many image formats are proprietary and patented, HTML got 'replaced' by Java-Scripts [sic], and many URLs (the URL system was created in the early 90s) are just long strings for proprietary 'webapps'
"During the preceding year I had been trying to get CERN to release the intellectual property rights to the Web code under the General Public License (GPL) so that others could use it."
A 10-word sentence being read by a million people can have the same impact or magnitude (exposure-wise) as a million-word book being read by just 10 people
