As argued many times before, Novell sees Red Hat as its main rival, rather than stay focused on Microsoft, which is where a large userbase is up for grabs. Novell should have and could worked more closely with Red Hat, not scrutinise them. As a matter fact, a Novell deal with Red Hat did not seem like such a crazy idea back in November, based on what we discussed in the SUSE mailing lists. An enemy of one's enemy is a friend, but Novell chose to make a deal with the enemy, to hurt what could have been a good friend.
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Russ Dastrup
2007-04-30 14:52:02
This particular video was one that was submitted by a college student in a Novell sponsored College student video competition. Novell did not give the students any content guidelines other than the direction that each video had to be Novell related. This video was very well produced and was humorous and did well in the competition. We did not base our judging criteria on what we felt was politically correct at the time. This was not a political statement just an attempt by a student to create something unique and clever and win a prize.
With over 6 million pounds in debt (nearly 10 million US dollars) we guess it's likely some other company will take over the site (if it deems it worthwhile)
The crash of this bubble isn't just inevitable, it's already happening and receding sporadically because of false announcements about money that does not actually exist (to "buy time")
When Debian wanted to stage a seemingly legitimate election it needed to have more than one candidate running; so eventually the female partner of a geek rose to the challenge (had no coding skills at all, no technical history in Debian) and lost to the "incumbent German"
Even back in the 90s many people converted programs from one language to another. That could invalidate copyleft (and copyright), which already existed
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Russ Dastrup
2007-04-30 14:52:02