With the exception of IRC [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], nothing was ever said here about Novell and Mormons. It is totally irrelevant to technical considerations and discussions, but the following Beta News article from yesterday -- an article about boycotts -- mentions Novell.

The legislation was strongly supported by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- the Mormons. As a result, many angry post-election calls for boycott are aimed at Mormon-connected or that happen to be headquartered in Utah, such as Novell, Iomega, and Priceline.com. (Such boycott talk is by no means originating from "official" sources.)

While it's interesting to find out about such separate boycotts, it has nothing to do with the existing actions. Our only 'political' objection to Novell is its policy on software patents. This site is nothing personal although some people inside Novell are responsible for the treasonous Microsoft deal, so they are sometimes named. It must never be believed that religion comes into play and amicable people whom I speak to are Mormons (Matt Asay, for example, is one... as far as I know).

To assume that there is personal vengeance involved or commercial interests at play would be insane because our only motive here is Freedom. There are other common misconceptions that we are connected with the FSF (we are not). ⬆