Novell Removed from List of National Free Software Conference Sponsors?
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2008-11-18 12:18:06 UTC
Modified: 2008-11-18 14:24:31 UTC
ON A COUPLE of occasions earlier this week, the protest against Novell in India got highlighted [1, 2]. As one blogger pointed out, the conference will be remembered for quite some time (internationally even) because of this incident, which is likely to deter prospective Novell customers. It's actually interesting that yesterday alone this Web site gauged about 600,000 hits, which is a lot more than usual. We're actually surprised that the server managed to stay up and serve pages.
We were not able to confirm this, but one reader told us that the action was a success in the sense that Novell won't participate in this "Free software" conference. Videos are beginning to appear as well, so here's a couple.
This action was also covered in several big sites and the father of the Free software movement commended the effort. Some more coverage appears here, in addition to a lot of blogs. According to Savio over at InfoWorld (IDG), these actions were a lot more effective than the activists probably realise.
[W]hat I find more interesting are the calls to boycott Novell, Suse, and Microsoft products in India.
It's about about word of mouth. It changes perceptions and passes from mouth to ear. ⬆
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
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
