Summary: Bits of news about Microsoft helpers who put a patent tax on Free software
THE state of Novell continues to be tracked and will be caught up with later this month.
One of Novell's products, Vibe/Pulse, was declared dead earlier this year, but Novell keeps uploading videos about it [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6]. It is probably not a marketing spillover because there are signs that Novell refuses to let this project go. Mixed messages for sure.
Disdain of Novell is a defence of the interests of FOSS because Novell forms a bridge for Microsoft to charge a tax/toll on FOSS. There is
this new product coming from another company that does this. It is called
Tuxera and it helps Microsoft tax file systems in Linux (and Android). We sometimes aptly call it "taxera".
There is not much news from Novell, but those who
try to keep abreast of things scrape some material that we will cover later this month. Novell won't be named for much longer because it was bought. Then there is the story of Linspire/Xandros and
Turbolinux, whose
staff we find in new places:
Prior to Lyris, Luis oversaw global business development and sales at Turbolinux, where he led the launch of international subsidiaries in Argentina, Australia, Germany and the UK. Rivera also led international sales at IMSI, a publicly traded software publishing company, and business development at @Road, a mobile resource management solution provider.
In other news that we shall cover more thoroughly later this month, OpenSUSE (Attachmate) plans to
have presence at FOSDEM despite the fact that SUSE is a bit of a pariah. To quote:
FOSDEM is the biggest event organized by and for the Free and Open Source (FOSS) community. Its goal is to provide developers a place to meet, come together and share and discuss ideas. The event happens 4-5 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. And there will again be a cross-distribution mini conference at FOSDEM this year. By organizing a mini conference where all distributions participate in we foster collaboration and cross pollination. You are hereby invited to hold a session.
This is actually quite harmless because it does not involve any of Microsoft's trojan horses that Novell/SUSE is used for (e.g. Mono, Microsoft kernel drivers, OOXML). Let us know of any Novell news we might have missed (in comments/IRC).
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