Comments on: Which Parts of the Disclosure Will Be Redacted? http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/ 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: shane http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/comment-page-1/#comment-780 Fri, 25 May 2007 18:45:16 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/#comment-780 You know, such business deals are never made fully public…It is just business practice.

I’ve never understood why shareholders couldn’t compel disclosure of stuff like this… If I am a shareholder in a company that is paying MS protection money based on spurious and unproven claims, I would like to know.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Fri, 25 May 2007 08:24:52 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/#comment-775 True, but here you have an open source trader. No transparency. To be fair to Novell, Canonical isn’t very open about its dealings with Dell either.

“If you compare the Dell prices to the official Canonical support prices, you will find that one year of support costs $250 direct from Canonical, and $275 if you buy it bundled with your Dell machine.”

Source: http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/05/dell-helping-canonical-become.html

Allow me to add this: the “take action first, provide explanation later” approach is not understandable. Novell just signed an irrevocable deal that took everyone by surprise.

]]> By: Marcus Meissner http://techrights.org/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Fri, 25 May 2007 07:13:16 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/25/novell-partial-disclosure/#comment-774 You know, such business deals are never made fully public.

Otherwise you could ask SCO for its deals with Microsoft etc.

It is just business practice.

Ciao, Marcus

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