04.26.07
Novell’s Key Linux Advocate Leaves Company (Updatedx2)
From his blog (April 26th):
March 24th, 2007 was my final day working at Novell. Leaving will be anything but easy.
I would like to wish Ted a wonderful future career. He is truly a wonderful character and, if I dare say, having followed his blog for a long time, the reduced level of advocacy coming from him after the deal had been made was very telling.
Update: just spotted a blog item titled “First Allison now Haeger, is there any personality left in Novell?”
Update #2: here’s a video of a talk from Ted.
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
Ted Haeger said,
April 27, 2007 at 11:57 am
Roy:
I hope that we can eventually meet. (My recommendation still stands that you come down to Wolverhampton for LugRadio Live.)
–Ted
Roy Schestowitz said,
April 27, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Thanks, Ted. For the past few months I have been extremely concerned every time I wrote to this site because I knew it hurt people whom I care about. I will definitely want to meet at some stage. Just send me an E-mail when you’re in the UK.