12.07.07
Novell Bashing in Today’s Register Podcast
The Open Season show is proof of the fact that we’re not alone when it comes to criticising Novell.
The usual crew - me, Matt Asay and Dave Rosenberg - went after Novell in Episode 7. Then we went after Novell some more. And finished off the Novell bashing with some Novell bashing.
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Show Notes - Novell wounded
- Page One PR takes the show down a notch
- Novell with layoffs
- Novell charged by Red Hat with releasing buggy code
- All agree - Novell is frustrating to watch
- Lonn has a secret Linux kernel contribution survey coming - Red Hat and Novell are neck-and-neck at about 10 per cent
- Last but not least, Novell delays SEC filings
The podcast is MP3-formatted.
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.
John Drinkwater said,
December 8, 2007 at 5:39 am
It’s also in shiny ogg, http://go.theregister.com/podcast/2007/12/07/open_season_seven_vorbed.ogg
Roy Schestowitz said,
December 8, 2007 at 7:13 am
Have you seen this new article yet?
Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier
Not exactly news, but they make it more official. Let’s wait and see if Google|Tube (and others) will take advantage.
The last bit of the podcast is very interesting and I have many related references, so I’ll probably post about it tomorrow. Have you by any chance managed to extract all the text from Effective Evangelism and put it on Google Apps/Docs? I would love to use that as an alternative reference that is not PDF-formatted.
eet said,
December 8, 2007 at 7:29 am
You people are sick. Get professional help. You are certainly suffering from severe personality disorder. Evading to work on your Ph.D., evading to prepare for a decisive podcast interview, evading to do research for your blog, insulting people more talented and successful than you, thinking the world is one, big conspiracy…
Man, you are SICK!
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