Tribute to Novell's Noorda, Who Never Trusted Microsoft
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-04-08 07:34:39 UTC
Modified: 2007-04-08 07:40:56 UTC
For a moment, we beg you ignore our domain name which -- as we explained before -- should have only refected on protest against patent deals with Microsoft, not the company as a whole. Then, hopefully, this placement of the video should not be perceived as disrespectful.
As stated by journalists when Ray Noorda passed away (just shortly before Microsoft/Novell negotiation bore 'fruit'), he never would have approved. In fact, it turns out that he supported Linux many years ago, whereas today's Novell appears to be losing focus.
We previously embedded a video which features an interview with the previous CEO, Jack Messman, who did not negotiate with Microsoft. If Ray Noorda (or maybe even Jack Messman) was still around, none of this would have happened, surely not behind the community's backs. Watching the video leaves you rather sad. It is saddening to see how a great company sold itself (and its community) to their aggressive rival.
Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)
From what we can gather, the tram ticketing system does not use Windows; we never saw it crashing or rebooting (or showing some Windows logo) in decades, so we assume it runs some kind of Linux
