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More on Moglen
A short while back, I posted on some of the misleading statements Novell’s Joe Brockmeier made in an interview with eWeek Europe. Today, Sam Varghese over at ITWire has a new article, “OpenSUSE’s Brockmeier caught out over Moglen claim” where he follows up Novell’s claims about Eben Moglen with Eben Moglen. Here’s what Novell’s mouthpeice [...]
The World According to Novell
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on December 7, 2009
eWeek Europe has an interview with Joe Brockmeier, the OpenSUSE community manager, entitled Microsoft ‘Has Acknowledged The Enterprise Role Of Linux’. Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting points the article raises, starting with a very misleading statement on the original Microsoft/Novell collaboration: At the time Brockmeier’s role didn’t exist, and thanks [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Holidays! People like to reflect over the holidays, so I want to offer up some portions of some internal “Highly Confidental” Microsoft documents that I’m thankful for the US legal system for getting into the public record. I would like readers to keep one over-reaching points in mind when considering this material: It’s not [...]
The Future of Moonlight, II
It seems like just yesterday that Miguel de Icaza took such umbrage at being called a Microsoft apologist. Strange then, that he has now taken up the robes of a Microsoft evangelist, suggesting that it is at-long-last finally time to “start a movement to create a suite of Silverlight-based desktop applications” As I pointed out [...]
The Future of Moonlight
Miguel de Icaza has spoken on The Future of Moonlight, and it is revealing. We could use Silverlight to build the next wave of cross-platform desktop applications. Really? We can use closed-source Silverlight to build cross-platform desktop applications? I’ve often said that a significant side effect of all the Team Mono propaganda is promoting Microsoft, [...]
Novell’s Dragoon on the New OS Wars
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell, Propriatery Technology on November 3, 2009
John Dragoon, Novell’s Chief Marketing Officer, walks an interesting path. I first noticed his comments back when he took a swipe at Canonical while praising Microsoft’s kernel “contributions”. Recently, he had an article in Forbes, “Battle Of The OS Titans“, where he lays out an argument that operating system development is different now-a-days and that [...]
On Mono and Samba
Posted by Jason in Novell, Uncategorized on October 19, 2009
Mono apologists love to downplay concerns through poor analogies. One extremely common – and highly flawed – favorite is to compare Mono to Samba.
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