Summary: Paul Cormier remarks on the death of Novell and what Novell actually did before it got sold (and its patents passed to Microsoft)

OVER THE YEARS we've explained how Novell was migrating people to proprietary software while preserving a sort of bogus public identity of an "open source" company. In this new interview from the Massachusetts press, Paul Cormier says about Novell: "It's a travesty. An absolute travesty. Customers were starting to want open source. So they'd come in with open source and [Novell would] try to switch them to the stuff that wasn't open source. I think that was one of the nails in the coffin. And I also think cozying up to Microsoft. The Linux community felt sold out. It hurt their credibillity [sic] with the Linux community."

In the next post, "Thoughts on Novell", I will try to explain what happened to Novell over the years. I will try to do this in video because it's quicker (too busy at work these days). ⬆