Comments on: What Borland Can Teach Critics About Novell http://techrights.org/2008/08/08/borland-international-lesson/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: twitter http://techrights.org/2008/08/08/borland-international-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-20243 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:53:33 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/08/borland-international-lesson/#comment-20243 An example, AppArmor is Dead.

In late 2007 Novell laid off almost all the developers of AppArmor [4] with the aim of having the community do all the coding. Crispin Cowan (the founder and leader of the AppArmor project) was later hired by Microsoft, which probably killed the chances for ongoing community development [5]. Crispin has an MSDN blog, but with only one post so far (describing UAC) [6], hopefully he will start blogging more prolifically in future.
The next step will be to make SE Linux the default and AppArmor the one that exists in a repository, and the step after that will be to remove AppArmor.

This can only be good for M$. It weakens Novell and free software choice. All M$ partners are forced to weaken themselves like this.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2008/08/08/borland-international-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-18549 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:15:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/08/borland-international-lesson/#comment-18549 It’s also a growing problem of what to do with the staff leaving Microsoft. They’ve shown themselves incapable of providing reliable advice in the field of information technology and because of the ubiqiuty of said tech, there’s not really any place they could be put without putting them at risk for recidivism.

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