Archive for category Novell
The Disappearing Article Mystery Solved?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell on March 26, 2010
Now that there is some explanation out there, we can examine two interesting aspects to the Disappearing Article Mystery. Be warned: this will be long and ranty. Aspect the First: The Disappearance The “disappearance” is explained by Mr. Worthington (the article author) on Twitter as so: on my recent .net evolution stories – nothing was pulled. they [...]
The Product of My Research
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on March 24, 2010
Just something I ran across trying to research the Disappearing Article Mystery: http://twitter.com/tuhl/status/10690157612 Short meeting with Jeremy Allison was cool – #osbc #samba #google http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/10691469526 @tuhl Shame that he has turned into a fear monger, hating, conspiracy theorist Stay classy, San Diego.
The Disappearing Article Mystery
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 24, 2010
This is strange. The Treasure I ran across some interesting quotes allegedly from Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot because of the constant threat of patent infringement that they have cast on the ecosystem [...] Unlike the Java world that is blossoming with dozens of vibrant Java Virtual Machine [...]
Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defense
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 23, 2010
End Software Patents has up a transcript and link to video of Andrew Tridgell’s talk on patent defense. Interestingly, Mr. Tridgell asserts that you should be reading patents – contrary to a lot of folk wisdom that doing so is dangerous because of “triple damages”: Andrew Tridgell: Triple damages. Right. Okay. In the free software community, [...]
Moonlight’s Olympic-sized failure
Another zealot for the list maintainers to add.
Another win for best of breed software in Ubuntu
Blast from the Past This is just something I think is funny.
Matt Asay joins Canonical
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on February 8, 2010
Big development as Matt Asay recently announced he is coming on board Canonical as the new COO. Good Thing For Mr. Asay, this is a good thing: he will greatly expand his influence, and be able to impose his philosophy on what is arguably the most popular distro. Bad Thing For everyone else, this is [...]
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