Damage, damage, damage. That appears to be the only thing Novell does nowadays. Egocentrically it aspires to boost its profits while throwing Microsoft's myths up in the air. Here's a new writeup from Lxer.

As I was reading through the latest paper edition of Computer Weekly I came across a story about Novell and their new interoperability drive with Microsoft. You've probably read more than I have on the subject. My tolerance for propaganda is thin on the ground.

Then I came across this statement from Microsoft's Bill Hilf. "I have seen in more than 13 years of working in Open Source that the free software audience is becoming smaller."

At which point I started to get angry. This is untrue - surely? It ignores all the growth of OpenSource in the "third world", all the change-overs in European governments and schools. In fact it ignores just about everything that's happened in the last 2-3 years.

Ok, this is propaganda - plain and simple. Designed to make users think that Linux is good for nothing other than servers. And that it's only "safe and reliable" if it's running in a nice Windows environment. This sort of blatant lying I expect from Microsoft, but how does Novell fit into this? Bent over a barrel sans clothing I suspect.

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The article goes on to quote Mr. Levy (of Novell); "Microsoft hopes to drive all those customers to virtualise Linux on Windows"

Read this writeup in its entirety and let it be your eye-opener.