The Linux Information Project has posted a rather provocatively titled list of 13 Reasons To Celebrate the New Microsoft-Novell Pact. Their list begins with the obvious: all of the hoopla around the deal is providing considerable publicity for Linux, as was the case with the SCO fiasco.
Moving on from that obvious beginning, it goes on [...]
Microsoft-Novell - A Reason To Celebrate?
Bruce Perens Says Linux Infringes MS Patents
In an open letter to Novell’s CEO, Bruce Hovsepian, Bruce Perens dismisses Hovespian’s statement, made in his own open letter, that Novell does not agree with Microsoft’s assertion that Linux users are infringing on Microsoft’s intellectual property by saying:
Let’s be truthful about software patents: there can be no non-trivial computer program, either proprietary or Free, [...]
Novell Responds to Microsoft, Groklaw FUD
Linux Watch, always on top of things, has a piece on the Open Letter to the Community from Novell that was released yesterday in response to the growing brouhaha over the Microsoft/Novell agreement. Not wasting time, the letter states:
“Our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual [...]
Microsoft Cranks Up The FUD Machine
Microsoft has brought their Get The Facts campaign off of it’s Summer hiatus, with a Mercer Management Consulting study that claims, among other things, that
…businesses that choose Linux over Windows for their UNIX migrations tend to be less rigorous in how they ascertain potential TCO savings.
Betanews has an excellent writeup of the paper if you [...]
Interesting Articles
There have been several interesting articles in the press since I went on vacation. Here are two of the better (more provocative) ones:
Top Five Things Linux Can Learn From Microsoft
Why Linux Isn’t Mainstream
Both of these two articles make some assumptions that I am not completely comfortable with, but all-in-all they are decent articles, and bring [...]
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