A Week After Novell Cool Blogs' Demise, Chief Blames the Medium
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-03-15 07:32:53 UTC
- Modified: 2008-03-15 07:32:53 UTC
"It's not me, it's you"
This may not be the most accurate of descriptions, but
just over a week ago we showed that Novell's Cool Blogs had been shut down due to low levels of participation and a slow pace. Novell's marketing officer, John Dragoon, thinks it's a
broader issue.
"It's far easier to start a blog than to keep one going," said John Dragoon, chief marketing officer at Waltham-based Novell Inc.
Has it occurred to him that it might just have something to do with
Novell's (and OpenSUSE's) image? He need only ask those who left or just lost passion.
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Comments
anonymous
2008-03-15 08:31:25
Other than Mark Shuttleworth's powerful backing of Ubuntu, how many other large companies will fall to their knees and open their jaws wide for Microsoft's cock? How many more people will sell?
I believe everyone should continue to bring up Bill Gates' old letter to computer users (mentioned in the RevolutionOS movie) whenever Microsoft mentions open source in a so-called positive light. Nothing good will ever come from that company, as far as true FOSS is concerned.
Victor Soliz
2008-03-15 13:53:07
Roy Schestowitz
2008-03-15 14:33:31
It was said after Microsoft's taxoperability offer (February 2008) that patent deals become moot, less likely and unnecessary. I used to disagree in my communications with Steven Vaughan that all distributions would sign a deal with Microsoft by now (he thought they would). Either way, not only patent deals are ways of having them fall into traps. Things to beware of including Mono/Silverlight, OOXML and other 'gifts' (of the Greek kind).