Critical advocacy definitely hurts the perpetrators

Summary: The net impact of this site and a growing level of respect

WE'RE in a position where we can tell that Boycott Novell probably cost Novell many millions of dollars in lost revenue. The action was phenomenally successful. It took a (personal) toll, but it did help society in many ways.

Some site called "Boycott Apple" (Boycott Apple dot com) is syndicating some posts from Techrights (didn't know until now). Here is a partial list of posts. This reminds us of the old days when Boycott Novell was used to educate people about Novell and channel them towards other companies.

"Back in the days of activism about Novell we received a lot of flak for criticising what was falsely perceived as part of the 'Linux world'."It is not unusual for us to find ourselves impacting news sites; books too are occasionally citing us. For instance, Techrights is cited in this book and this book, where criticism of the Gartner Group got noted (I also participated in a film about this). This is all outside the scope of my academic work which got me in dozens of books. In my view, this site has had a far greater contribution than my academic work, which is why it is approaching its seventh year and seventeen-thousandth post. Yes, it has been that long and this much.

Back in the days of activism about Novell we received a lot of flak for criticising what was falsely perceived as part of the 'Linux world'. That was before Novell gave its patents to Microsoft and Apple, essentially proving us right. Novell was a ticking time bomb and the patent deals revolutionised by Novell continue to harm Linux to this date. Android in particular is impacted now. ⬆