Novell Still Negotiating Sale - Touching Base With the News
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-08-17 09:10:16 UTC
Modified: 2010-08-17 09:10:16 UTC
Summary: As Novell potentially comes to the end of its last era, another synopsis is presented based on news about its products
ACCORDING to this original statement, Novell is still on the block. This possibly means that Novell as a publicly-traded company is having its last weeks/months.
Oracle, Amazon Offer New Ways to Run Linux From Afar
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VDI 3.2 officially supports Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Oracle Enterprise Linux, though organizations are free to run other Linux distributions with the software as well. Oracle has no plans to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, given that the company's own Oracle Enterprise Linux is a close replica of that OS, Coekaerts said.
Speaking of Amazon, further to what we wrote earlier on about SLES at Amazon [1, 2], there's more news coverage such as:
OpenSUSE is intended to be the free/libre SLE*, but with the exception of some HOWTOs and occasional reviews or summaries, there is rarely any story told about large deployments of OpenSUSE. Red Hat and Canonical seem to have a stronger grip on desktops.
OpenSUSE still comprises volunteers like this person who writes: "Working on design for the openSUSE project is indeed a hard thing to do. I am not a Novell or openSUSE employee. I do what I do with my free time, which will be drastically reduced soon, because the school year is starting at the end of the month."
The project called "OpenSUSE" is still Novell's property. It would help if Novell truly set it free (as in independent).
SCO
Groklaw and Lamlaw continue to explore the SCO case since SCO appeals the ruling in Novell's favour [1, 2].
An issue is hardly moot when SCO continues to appeal the relevant issues. But, then SCO has to somehow get the US Supreme Court to stay away from their nuisance law suits. SCO lawyers know for certain that if the US Supreme Court decides that a writing means that the specific copyrights subject to a transfer actually have to be identified in the writing itself, they are out of luck.
Regardless of this case, there's still Oracle to worry about [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], not to mention Microsoft and Apple, both of which are suing to get royalties out of Linux. Novell already pays such royalties to Microsoft, having approached Microsoft to make it happen. ⬆
Some publicly available information suggests that even for each paid subscriber for plagiarism (LLM 'coding') GitHub Copilot still loses more money than it makes
"Mr Neidle said after repelling Mr Zahawi he was contacted by bloggers and tweeters who had received similar threats. They deleted their work “and in most cases never commented publicly on anything again”."
Tolerance and inclusion must extend to acceptance that some people don't agree with you, might never agree with you, and imposing what allegedly works for you on them is unreasonable
People don't get married because they love weddings, folks don't join the army because they love war, and most drivers don't drive to work because they love cars
