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John Dragoon

John Dragoon was one of the managers at Novell. The following articles covered or mentioned him.

  • 01.01.07 John Dragoon Responds to OpenAddict Boycott
  • 02.29.08 John Dragoon Chases Bloggers Again
  • 03.15.08 A Week After Novell Cool Blogs’ Demise, Chief Blames the Medium
  • 07.27.10 Source Seems to be the Hardest Word


  • 11.08.10 Novell’s Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon Does Not Understand Novell Critics, Rewrites the Past Instead
  • 04.29.11 John Dragoon is Leaving Novell Amid Fallout


  • 11.21.06 David Kaefer: “Patents are Hard to Understand.”
  • 11.22.06 Novell Admits Being Selfish?
  • 02.03.07 Microvell and GPLV3 – The FSF Strikes Back
  • 03.05.07 Novell: The Intellectual Property Payment Also Covers Novell Products
  • 05.01.07 More HR Moves At Novell
  • 10.05.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell in the Press
  • 01.01.08 What’s Good for Microsoft is Good for Novell?
  • 01.06.08 Novell’s Deal Makes OpenSUSE a Just Last Resort to a Linux User
  • 01.23.08 The WordPerfect Lawsuit and the Abused Wife Called Novell
  • 01.26.08 Novell Still Kisses Bloggers’ Behinds for Positive Publicity
  • 01.26.08 Software Patents and Standards are Inherently Incompatible
  • 02.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Week of Zonker in OpenSUSE World
  • 02.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Waltham Forest Council, SiteScape and Novell Partners Including GWAVA
  • 02.23.08 Novell Speaks About Microsoft’s Software Patents
  • 03.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Latest Buys, Financial Results
  • 03.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: CeBIT, BrainShare and Virtualisation
  • 03.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: BrainShare 2008 Overview
  • 03.23.08 BrainShare 2008 Press Roundup: Part III
  • 04.25.08 Novell, Stay Out of Russia With Your Microsoft Software Patents Scam (Updated)
  • 04.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Business Overview, New Activities and SCO
  • 06.27.08 Free Software Exploitation: Novell’s Poor Business Strategy
  • 07.08.08 Mark Shuttleworth Denounced Microsoft-Novell Deal Again
  • 08.21.08 Did Novell Contact You As Well to Manipulate News Coverage?
  • 09.04.08 Novell Could be Lying to Investors, Still Depends on Microsoft
  • 09.07.08 The GNU/Linux Kidnap Theory (Microsoft, 2005)
  • 09.24.08 Novell: From StopTheFUD to JoinTheFUD
  • 12.17.08 Novell’s BrainShare is Dead, Long Live the Memories
  • 12.19.08 “Registrations for BrainShare have Been Very Low to This Point”
  • 01.08.09 Microsoft May Conquer Novell from the Inside
  • 01.09.09 Novell Vice President, Javier Colado, Acknowledges Novell’s Channel is Broken
  • 01.09.09 Novell’s EMEA President Quits
  • 01.10.09 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Very Little About SUSE and Turbolinux
  • 01.17.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Busy Week’s Assortment
  • 01.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Strategy, CMDB, Virtualisation and More
  • 02.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE on Desktops, Servers, Clouds, and in the Channel
  • 02.20.09 Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE
  • 02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: More on the Financial Results, Novell Figures
  • 04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Post SLE11 Release, Open Cloud Revisited
  • 05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners
  • 07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLE* News (with Many Videos) and Portions of Xandros/Scalix
  • 07.27.09 Novell is Insulting Ubuntu/Canonical Again
  • 07.29.09 Novell Lies About SUSE Appliances
  • 08.22.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, IDC, and Inland Revenue (NZ)
  • 08.29.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Appliance Programme
  • 09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Wants BrainShare Renaissance
  • 10.03.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Distribution Channel, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, and More
  • 10.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Mostly Dry Week for Novell’s Non-Free(dom) Business
  • 10.31.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO vs Novell to Continue, Schmidt Comes to Utah, GWAVACon Announced
  • 11.03.09 Novell’s PR Director and Marketing Chief Both Send the Wrong Message
  • 12.07.09 Novell’s Zonker Slammed for Lying About Microsoft/Novell Deal
  • 12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Intelligent Workload Management, Ballnux, and Bada
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Plugs in the Press and SCO Case Galore
  • 02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Financial Results Are Near
  • 02.23.10 Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo! Search to Increase Brainwash of the Public
  • 02.28.10 Novell’s Anti-Red Hat Pitch, Comments Squad, and “Boosters” Team
  • 03.20.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Clarifications from Elliott Associates, Hosted Conferencing, and BrainShare 20TEN
  • 03.20.10 Novell Staff Shrank by ~10% and Hovsepian Allegedly Plays Hard to Get With Elliott Associates
  • 03.24.10 Novell Still Avoids Talking With Public About Being Bought
  • 03.27.10 BrainShare 2010
  • 03.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE (SLES/SLED) in BrainShare 2010, Samsung and Kyocera With Android
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, ZENworks, NetWare, and idOnDemand
  • 05.05.10 Novell Gives up on RadeonHD, to Resume SCO Case, BrainShare EMEA
  • 05.21.10 Novell is Surrounded by Potential Buyers of the Company
  • 05.29.10 Novell’s Software Patents and Microsoft Copycats Turn Into Greater Threats to GNU/Linux
  • 06.01.10 More Microsoft Products May be Axed After Microsoft Exodus, Other Trouble
  • 06.10.10 Novell: The Microsoft-Taxed Fog Computing Solution
  • 07.20.10 Novell Comes to New Zealand
  • 07.28.10 Novell Promotes — Then Disses — Fog Computing
  • 09.28.10 Novell News Roundup: GroupLink, Bahrain’s MOSD, Messaging Architects, SAP, and Training in India
  • 10.03.10 SUSE is Getting More Restrictive and Virtualisation-centered Ahead of Expected Sale to VMB_ware
  • 10.15.10 Novell Persists With Non-Free Software Focus
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part V: AttachMSFT Might Sell UNIX
  • 12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
  • 01.13.11 Upon Exit, Ronald Hovsepian and Co. May ‘Loot’ Novell One Last Time
  • 05.22.11 Hovsepian, Russell, O’Keefe, Shah, Hale, Kavanagh, Semel, Ebzery and Many Others Leave Novell
  • 07.22.11 Remnants of Novell
  • 10.24.12 IntraLinks Absorbs Novell Executives
  • 05.03.14 Novell Continues to Damage GNU/Linux
  • 05.15.16 UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office