Novell's Newsletter is Out
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-05 19:22:47 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-05 19:22:47 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Representing and Speaking for Animals
- If I ever choose to take this matter to tribunal with animals-centric NGOs on my side, it'll get some press coverage for sure
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Slop Images in VentureBeat, Linux Foundation Spam Made With LLM Slop and Slop Images
- The only relief or upside - if any exists - is that the pace of slop was down a bit this week
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Will be Remote
- This past week RMS received lots of accolades online
- Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
- Links for the day
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- Links 29/08/2025: Arti 1.5.0, War on Public Health (CDC), and Slop 'Bros' Made to Pay for Their Mass Plagiarism
- Links for the day
- No, 4Chan is Not Fighting for You by Lawyering Up Against Ofcom (UK)
- Don't mistake proto-fascists for people who "fight for you". They don't.
- Downlplaying the Impact of "UEFI 9/11" is a Losing Strategy
- we won't publish much whilst on holiday
- In Many Places in the World Vista 11 "Market Share" is Going Down, Not Up
- In some countries Windows is already down to third place or lower
- More Microsoft-Connected Layoffs, at Least Third Time This Month! (Also Another Death on Campus)
- Microsoft as a "gaming" company is where studios, projects, games, and even developers come to die
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 28, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, August 28, 2025
- Gemini Links 29/08/2025: Poems, Games, and Java 25 Performance
- Links for the day
- Links 28/08/2025: Greenland 'Interferences' by US and Skinnerboxes to Get Banned in Korean Schools
- Links for the day
- The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives): Free Software is Putin, Hence Evil and Dangerous
- The current editor in chief is an American Microsofter, the previous one went to work for Google (US)
- Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks
- Links for the day
- A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms
- There are several lessons in there
- The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
- In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) Resists Software Freedom, Even by Attacking Its Own
- The OSI is compromised
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, August 27, 2025
- Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, Slopfarms in Google News, and More
- Some readers of ours end up sending us links that are from slopfarms, not realising those are slopfarms
- Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Katrina Memories and Google Versus Software Freedom
- Links for the day
- Links 27/08/2025: Police Against Media Freedom in the UK, Energy-Hungry Countries Targeted by China
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Windows Fell to All-Time Lows in Egypt This Summer, Vista 11 Adoption Decreases While GNU/Linux Increases
- Vista 11 is going down rather than up
- Links 27/08/2025: Microsoft Demoralises Staff With Slop Demands, Leaving Mastodon Explained
- Links for the day
- 12 Hours Ago The Register MS Published a Fake (Paid-for) Article, But This One for a Change Did Not Promote a Ponzi Scheme
- There are also Free software alternatives, but they don't pay The Register MS for "synthetic" so-called 'journalism'
- More People Need to Call Out and Put a Stop to Serial Sloppers
- Unless slopfarms are stopped, people will read and share Microsoft propaganda made by chatbots
- Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Headphones and Tartarus
- Links for the day
- Morale at Microsoft is Terrible (Proprietary Plagiarism Machines Have No Future, LLM Slop is a Bubble)
- The slop sceptics/critics are going to have lots of "told you so" moments
- GNOME "governance issues, staff reduction, etc." amidst Albanian whistleblowing and women trafficking
- Notice the connection to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and GNOME
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Comments
Ian
2008-12-05 20:28:37
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-05 20:30:44
Ian
2008-12-05 20:31:53
Josh Bell
2008-12-05 20:40:15
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-05 20:47:06
I just think it's quite a way to open the newsletter.
Ian
2008-12-05 21:05:22
Not for a company that probably has 95% of its customer base running Windows on the desktop and have windows servers in their data centers. Unfortunately(or fortunately, depending on your point of view of course), the reality is most "enterprise" level shops have to deal with Windows and many are mixed shops.
G. Michaels
2008-12-06 06:32:07
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mike
2008-12-06 08:20:44
There's definitely a little bit of `fail', in that.
Ian - yes, and they've had to deal with it for a very long time, it isn't a new thing. And in fact that is how 'linux' became to be used in many companies in the first place. Running Samba. Nothing to do with any patent deal or proprietary `value add' software.
(And what's that Josh guy on about, did he post on the right site?).
Josh Bell
2008-12-06 12:52:46
You don't know what software they used to make the newsletter so pointing to that doesn't make sense and does it matter?
Where I usually have an issue with Roy is the site is boycottnovell. Usually in a boycott you want the company to change. This is not Roy's point any longer. Roy has stated in the IRC that the only solution now for Novell and Microsoft to fail. He no longer is boycotting, he's wishing for a death knell for two companies with thousands of worldwide employees.
jo Shields
2008-12-06 12:55:00
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-06 13:02:57
twitter
2008-12-06 16:59:07
It's a shame that Novell has spent it's time making the Windows cesspool more bearable instead of promoting the free alternatives. This is a business model that failed in the 90s. It's no coincidence then that Novell's stock price tanked in 1993 and has never really recovered. M$ defeated its servant and now uses them for more trouble. The closer you are to M$, the faster you fail.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-06 17:17:25
G. Michaels
2008-12-06 20:09:34
Oh, I'm glad I saved this link a few months ago, apropos lecturing others about "humor".
I believe people call it "the Ali-Baba post" on Slashdot, where you're quite the legend.
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