Comments on: Friendly ‘Boycott Novell’ Supportes Robbed of Voice

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:34:16 +0000

You seem to be missing the point that it was not a Novell event, it was carried under the FOSS banner, and it was not disclosed that a proprietary software company (Novell) would have it sort of hijacked to deceive. See this later post.

By: Shankar Anand

Shankar Anand — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:01:53 +0000

I completely agree with HeadMonkey. It was a conference that Novell had sponsored. These protesters did not have any business entering Novell’s stall and pasting anti-Novell posters in Novell’s stall or on Novell’s name/log on the conference advertisement boards.

If they wanted to protest, they should have done it outside the premises.

As HeadMonkey said, this “is like saying, I can come to your rented apartment, and call your wife a whore, and your kid a dumb ass, and assert my right to free speech while doing so, without you being able to call the police and have me removed from your rented apartment.”

By: devidas

devidas — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:33:28 +0000

@ Kenney,

The fault ain’t with Communist Government ruling the state. The fault was, as far as my knowledge about the event is concerned, with the organizers who failed to see the Microsoft-Novell tie-ups, and made them the sponsors.

By: Dr Known

Dr Known — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:01:23 +0000

Closed source software businesses promote Collusion in the industry.
Open source software businesses promote Competition in the industry.

By: Kenney

Kenney — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:43:04 +0000

I have a few questions about the incident

http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/11/17/who-is-the-real-culprit-novell-or-cusat/

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:21:20 +0000

Putting pressure on Novell is totally fair. They should be distancing themselves from the likes of these people.

By: Ragsagar

Ragsagar — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:36:48 +0000

@zenny

nice job buddy!

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:04:49 +0000

I’m preparing a followup post that’s more comprehensive. This was just a quick one.

By: Zenwalker

Zenwalker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:01:06 +0000

Great to see the link i referenced to you getting published here soon.

Thanks Roy.

By: stephanruby

stephanruby — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:07:31 +0000

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Recovering those deleted pictures from your mobile shouldn’t be a problem with something like:
http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/Zero_Assumption_Digital_Image_Recovery/Zero_Assumption_Digital_Image_Recovery.html
Thanks

- stephanruby (on slashdot.org)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:00:08 +0000

Yes, this took me by surprise and I was asleep at the time. I’m surprised the site did not go down (unless it did at one stage). The response to the event of Kerala was also a surprise. We were not responsible for any of this.

The person responsible sent me this some hours ago:

Posters available from below link
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/fci/images/0/00/Boycottnovell.pdf

Statement from Swathanthra Malayalam computing
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/StatementOnNCFS2008Kochi

By: JJMacey

JJMacey — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:55:12 +0000

Hi All,

Wow, I’m surprised to see such activism regarding a meeting. I’m sure that you know that Slashdot has picked this up.

By: bobinson

bobinson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0000

Kenney, I agree with you.

By: Kenney

Kenney — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:05:19 +0000

What Arun said is the truth. The communists and their feeder organisations are to blame. Novell paid the money and got screwed. But now it looks like every one is afraid to even speak about the organisers and their attempts to brand the event a communist thing.

By: Headmonkey

Headmonkey — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:07 +0000

Lets analyse this situation, from the real worlds viewpoint, and not that of a religious software freedom baby zealot.

Novell and/or the conference organizers, undoubtedly, rented the space to hold the conference. Its their space, to speak their voice, for however long they rented it. To blame Novell and/or the conference attendees for having the zealots thrown out, or claiming they don’t have the right to have the zealots thrown out, is like saying, I can come to your rented apartment, and call your wife a whore, and your kid a dumb ass, and assert my right to free speech while doing so, without you being able to call the police and have me removed from your rented apartment.

I really wish the free software community, which I am a part of, and whos products I use and enjoy, would stop portraying themselves as lunatics in public, and spend their time improveing the quality of their code. If they feel the need to comment on source code, for gods sakes, start commenting your source code.

Free software cannot promote itself, by unleashing an armanent of negativity towards for fee or closed source companies and their products. The free software community should be minding its own business, and promoting and developing its own products, and advertiseing the virtues of its adoption and use.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:55:13 +0000

Will silly ad hominem attacks please end?

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:51:37 +0000

This ‘Needs Sunlight’ guy sounds suspiciously like Slashdot’s very own troll twitter, who is already whipping up a shillstorm over there:

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1031407&cid=25783351

Bad, bad sockpuppets, bad.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:49:29 +0000

Needs Sunlight, They have already pretty much done that.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:30:55 +0000

@Tom: Cool. So by your reasoning, then M$ can go around “sponsoring” all sorts of conferences and workshops just to be able to tell competitors to get out. Doing that directly would violate the sneaky tactics outlined years ago by their planners, so don’t expect to see M$ execs getting their hands dirty throwing groups out, that’s for M$ partners like Novell or for M$ fascades like BSA and FAST.

By: Patrick McGoldrick

Patrick McGoldrick — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:42:19 +0000

“your posters are slander.”

You misunderstand slander.

Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person’s reputation or standing in the community.

No-one has implied that what they were saying about Novell was untrue.