There Are Those Who Sell Linux and Those Who Sell Out
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-08-21 04:25:33 UTC
Modified: 2007-08-21 04:25:33 UTC
Novell could not outsell Red Hat, so it sold its soul (along with other souls)
About a week ago, through a writing published in ZDNet and TuxDeluxe, Jeremy Allison shared something that few of us actually knew. He said he was offered a lot of money for Samba and the offer was declined.
One estimate put the price tag on creating the Linux kernel at over $600 million. In the early days of the project I work on, Samba, a commercial competitor who shall remain nameless offered around $40 million for the rights. They were refused.
This is particularly interesting because we recently also discovered that Apple had acquired CUPS and we also saw XenSource snatched. Last November we saw Novell selling out too, as Groklaw put it. Jeremy Allison, a Novell employee at the time, said that Novell was a willing victim. Novell was offered a large amount of money not only to become a victim, but also to victimise those that gave it GNU/Linux. For that, Novell cannot be forgiven.
On Sunday we posted a video of one talk from Jeremy Allison. As tribute to a man who sticks to principles, here is another.
Comments
Dev Null
2007-08-22 22:21:25
This is one of the most boring videos I've seen. Glad to see Allison somewhere else but Novell. And whoever writes these articles sounds more like a Jihad Stallman diciple than someone with good and sound intellect.
What next? Is Novell going to give the UNIX rights to Microsoft? Please!!! Give us all a break and go play in the middle of the highway, it would certainly be more interesting than this article you've written.
The consensus in comments we see is, IBM is a terrible place to work in, treatment of its workers is appalling, it's utterly foolish to relocate in an effort to retain a job at IBM, and it's foolish to join the company in the first place
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
Comments
Dev Null
2007-08-22 22:21:25
What next? Is Novell going to give the UNIX rights to Microsoft? Please!!! Give us all a break and go play in the middle of the highway, it would certainly be more interesting than this article you've written.