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.
"poor working environments, including discrimination and inequality, excessive workloads, low job control and job insecurity pose a risk to mental health"
Our stories aren't discouraged or considered taboo because of racism or "toxic politics" or anything like that; they just hurt powerful people and corporations
Who needs RAs (layoffs, which have been rebranded as "buyouts" like pink slips are generous "gifts") when workers can have their butts kicked every day and WARN Act reporting thresholds are never approached?
Someone should ask Linus Torvalds or his boss (Linux Foundation) if they deem slop, which nobody audits, trustworthy enough to add to every computer out there running the Linux kernel
Using imbeciles who lie to cops and then dox cops (and already have arrest record and court documents wherein they admit being stoned in front of the cops)
We're entering bizarre times when layoffs are said to be "down" (according to the regime that suffered a 'bloodbath' in the election) because companies quit using the term "layoffs"
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.