Archive for category Novell
Attachmate Statement on Open Source
Posted by Jason in Novell, Open Source on December 18, 2010
A recent SEC filing gives a preview of an upcoming Attachmate statement on Open Source, OpenSUSE and related matters: Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source? —A Q&A with Jeff Hawn, chairman and CEO of Attachmate by Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE Community Manager at Novell I had a chance to speak with [...]
More Mono Misinformation Meticulously Dematerialized
Let’s look at some more Mono Misinformation, so the Gentle Reader can gain a sense of what one faces when braving the Wilds of Ignorance. Oh Twitter User, It’s So Cute When You Try So, as I parsed my enormous referrer logs, populated only with visits by Distinguished Guests of the Highest Caliber, I noticed [...]
On Mono Packaging
It’s almost nostalgic to be posting so often about Mono, but hopefully the Gentle Reader finds this post worth his valuable time. The Claim One of the common claims of the Mono proponent is that distribution packagers are splitting Mono into ECMA and non-ECMA packages. Debian and/or Ubuntu are commonly held up as examples in [...]
Patents and Change: More on Novell-Attachmate
Posted by Jason in Novell, Patent System on December 1, 2010
More brilliant, unique and rainbow-creating analysis on the Novell-Attachmate deal. Answering Questions First, you may want to read my stunningly well-written post “What Patents is Novell Selling?” Make sure you have a pencil in both hands. The main conclusion I draw patent-wise is that we can easily find Novell has a little over 800 patents, and we [...]
What Patents is Novell Selling?
Posted by Jason in Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on November 26, 2010
Happy Turkey Day! According to my (on-going and slip-shod) research, here’s some speculation on exactly what patents Novell is selling to Microsoft. What patents are for sell? Only a number (882) is given in the SEC filing, so we don’t know for sure. But, we can look at patents assigned to (and applied for by) [...]
Novell’s Final Betrayal: 800+ Patents to Microsoft
Today Novell announced its final betrayal of Linux and the Free and Open Source Community: Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected [...]
Mono Criticism == Uninformed Hatred?
Posted by Jason in Novell, Open Source on November 8, 2010
Guy Van Sanden has a short post, “Get the facts on mono” where he makes a few points on mono: But a lot of time has past since the original discussions and in that time, some things became very clear. Microsoft does hold patents on the .NET technology that mono is based on They made [...]
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