03.01.08
Novell Loves .NET, Copyrights Code
Microsoft mentality
Here comes another good example that demonstrates Novell’s loveaffair with Mono.
Tasky, another good tool, another bad idea
Because it’s written in C#. And guess what? Copyright (C) 2007 Novell, Inc.
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No word about dependencies. No word about Mono. Nothing alarming in the Goals section.
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Now you know. In that f–ing Novell’s Hackweek they could have started a new project in a different way — but no, they wanted it in Mono!
As we emphasised before (based on Novell interviews), Novell puts its cards on Mono [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33], careless about the consequences that apply to other GNOME-based GNU/Linux distributions. Microsoft must be watching from afar with glee. █
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.