Archive for category Novell
The Innovative People of Novell
Posted by Jason in Novell, Patent System on January 30, 2010
Inventive people who write more software patents per capita than anywhere else. Software patents: A Novell metric for success.
Constant Zonker
I was mildly interested to see if Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier would continue to spread his special brand of so-close-to-a-lie-why-not-just-call-it-that distortions once he left Novell. Well, now we have an answer: Yes. And – brace yourself for a shock here – he is targeting the FSF. Again. This time around, though we are treated to simple [...]
The H On Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 19, 2010
The H Open has a new article up, “Health Check: Moonlight“. Although it is a high-level overview/summary-style piece, let me point out a few things I found interesting. de Icaza is an enthusiast and long term advocate of Microsoft technologies…. Say it ain’t so! Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza once took great exception to be [...]
Silverlight Promotion on Planet GNOME
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 9, 2010
A bit of a rant here, because guess what greeted me when I began checking my RSS feeds today on my lazy Saturday morning: Remember that whole promoting proprietary software on Planet GNOME kerfluffle? I know this will sound insane, but I think a huge-ass button saying “Install Microsoft® Silverlight™” might possibly fall under the [...]
More on the Moonlight Covenant
Reactions are coming in from all over now about the new Moonlight Covenant and I have yet to run across one that thinks it is a good thing. This means More Moonlight Covenant problems in addition to the 10 I already laid out. Moonlight still not acceptable in Fedora Unsurprisingly, the new “covenant” doesn’t change Fedora’s [...]
VideoLAN Movie Creator
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on December 28, 2009
I’m excited about the upcoming VideoLAN Movie Creator! I’m also excited about making bulleted lists lately! 1. Pedigree The related-project VLC Media Player is a well-known cross-platform project that inspires confidence in the VLMC. I’m not sure exactly how to quantify “name-brand” power as a factor of success (or even if such a thing can [...]
10 Problems with the New Moonlight Covenant
So, the all-new all-updated Covenant to End Users of Moonlight 3 and 4 is up! Here’s the text, to save you a trip: Covenant to End Users of Moonlight 3 and 4 Microsoft, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not to sue End Users for infringement under Necessary Claims of Microsoft and [...]
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