Comments on: Novell’s Buybacks Not Enough, Says Analyst http://techrights.org/2008/05/15/novell-buybacks-barrons-heckle/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: David Flax http://techrights.org/2008/05/15/novell-buybacks-barrons-heckle/comment-page-1/#comment-9899 Thu, 15 May 2008 22:50:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/15/novell-buybacks-barrons-heckle/#comment-9899 The shame is you are really don’t understand stock buybacks. They are not always bad. Novell is cash heavy and buying back stock is good for investors who see the EPS go up and their stock value goes up. It helps to bone up on understanding why companies buy back stock. Using google trends isn’t a way to garner anything more than simple trends is misleading at best,, at worst it’s fraudulent.

]]> By: b0rsuk http://techrights.org/2008/05/15/novell-buybacks-barrons-heckle/comment-page-1/#comment-9871 Thu, 15 May 2008 12:11:12 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/15/novell-buybacks-barrons-heckle/#comment-9871 I’d like to point out the stats you use to back up your claims are misleading. Earlier (I believe comments were disabled) you pointed out to trends.google.com to illustrate that Novell/Suse is going down, or whatever. Well, guess what ? The same downward tendency is true for
http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+winxp%2C+fedora&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
debian, winxp, fedora . Not Ubuntu though.

“Operating system” and “linux” also go down in trends.google.com stats. So it’s probably something more general. I believe this happens because computers in general go mainstream, and are increasingly used by non-technical users. Such users often don’t care what OS they use. They just use whatever happens to be on the machine at the moment of purchase.

b0rsuk

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