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Jeff Jaffe

Jeff Jaffe was a Novell manager, who later joined W3C and did some damage there, too.

  • 12.15.09 Management Exodus at Novell
  • 01.31.10 Novell Loses Executive Vice President and Community Manager
  • 03.08.10 W3C Poisoned by Promoters of Software Patents Who Attack GNU/Linux
  • 06.30.13 Microsoft and Its Partner Netflix Pollute the Web With DRM Because Silverlight is Dead


  • 02.21.09 Novell’s Jaffe on Novell’s Linux Strategy: .NET, Mono, Moonlight, Nothing About OpenSUSE


  • 01.17.07 Novell’s Technical Strategy
  • 08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock
  • 12.21.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE Reviews and Praises Amid Holiday Preparations
  • 01.01.08 What’s Good for Microsoft is Good for Novell?
  • 01.25.08 Off-Topic: The Secret Crumbling of Microsoft’s Key Staff
  • 02.02.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part V: Novell’s Corporate News, Policies
  • 03.01.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Latest Buys, Financial Results
  • 03.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: BrainShare 2008 Overview
  • 03.22.08 MonoDevelop in the Press, Which Totally Misses the Point
  • 03.23.08 BrainShare 2008 Press Roundup: Part II
  • 03.29.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: BrainShare 2008 and GWAVA Catchup
  • 03.31.08 OpenSUSE Sheds Off Its Novell Antiroots, Returns to Pre-Novell Codebase, Version 4.01
  • 04.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Present in the News This Week
  • 05.10.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Business Activities, Bar SUSE and GNU/Linux
  • 08.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SCO, GWAVA, and Some Minor Developments
  • 09.02.08 IBM Influence in Novell
  • 09.11.08 Novell Keeps the Beast Happy
  • 10.18.08 Is Novell’s PR Department Managing Executive Blogs?
  • 11.15.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLES, SLERT, HPC, SLED, and Xandros
  • 12.19.08 Linux Foundation Detoxicated — Slightly — from Novell Influence
  • 12.24.08 Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin CEO) Quits Novell; More Shuffles in Canada
  • 01.09.09 Novell Vice President, Javier Colado, Acknowledges Novell’s Channel is Broken
  • 01.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Strategy, CMDB, Virtualisation and More
  • 01.25.09 Novell’s CTO Doesn’t Feel Like Neo Madness Anymore
  • 02.13.09 Novell’s Patent Deal — Like SCO’s Lawsuits — a Miserable Failure
  • 03.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Products, People, and Toxic Waste
  • 04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Past, Present, and Former Novellers All Over the Place
  • 05.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Moblin, ProBook, Certification, and Xandros/Presto
  • 05.18.09 Microsoft Insiders Watch: Bruckheimer, Digiting, DoMedia
  • 06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Offshoring, More Financial Analysis, and SCO
  • 07.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLE* News (with Many Videos) and Portions of Xandros/Scalix
  • 07.27.09 Novell is Insulting Ubuntu/Canonical Again
  • 08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: PlateSpin, GWAVA Conference, and More
  • 08.21.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Wants to Own Studying of Evolution, Sony Wants to Own Studying of Laughter, and How Patent Thickets Make Disharmony
  • 08.22.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Scandals Revisited, GWAVACon Comes to the UK, and Tech Data Expands Partnership with Novell
  • 09.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Netware, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, People, and Partners
  • 10.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Mostly Dry Week for Novell’s Non-Free(dom) Business
  • 10.31.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO vs Novell to Continue, Schmidt Comes to Utah, GWAVACon Announced
  • 12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO/UNIX to Conclude in March, eDirectory Patched
  • 12.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: AutoZone-SCO Case Ends, Financial Leftovers, Partner Academy Launched in India
  • 12.16.09 “Things Are Going Downhill at Novell These Days”
  • 12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SAP and Novell Kiss Again, Groupwise Shamed in Public by Google
  • 01.10.10 Novell Restructure Could Facilitate Buyout of Novell Division
  • 01.29.10 Turbolinux is History After Microsoft Patent Deal
  • 02.02.10 Novell: We Love Our Software Patents, We Needed More!
  • 02.06.10 Novell Executives Still Cannot Write Blog Posts?
  • 03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)
  • 03.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse With Google, Finance, Virtualisation and More
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and IBM Cuddle, Android’s Patent Problem in Asia
  • 05.03.10 “Behind the Open Codec FUD Attack, W3C Captured by Microsoft, Apple, Nokia and So On?”
  • 05.09.10 Microsoft Vice President Quits, AOL and Glam Poisoned
  • 05.29.10 Novell’s Software Patents and Microsoft Copycats Turn Into Greater Threats to GNU/Linux
  • 06.10.10 IBM Uses Novell to Take Market Share From Rivals Like Oracle
  • 08.11.10 Dr. Bill Claybrook (Linux Product Marketing) Quit Novell
  • 09.13.10 Novell’s Decline, OpenSUSE, Ballnux Tax, Proprietary Software and Fog Computing Obsessions
  • 11.14.10 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux
  • 11.14.10 The W3C and Fake Authority
  • 03.12.13 Eliminating Software Patents, Not the Symptoms
  • 07.09.13 Microsoft Linux (SUSE) is Pushing Microsoft-controlled Restricted Boot, Advancing It on Servers Too
  • 05.03.14 Novell Continues to Damage GNU/Linux
  • 05.17.14 Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM
  • 11.14.15 Red Hat and BlackBerry: Companies That Use Linux But Also Hoard Software Patents and Use These Against Rivals in the Linux Space
  • 06.23.16 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
  • 08.06.16 How Low-Quality USPTO Patents Made the US Fertile Ground for Patent Trolling
  • 01.06.18 The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World’s Worst Offices


  • 02.23.09 Links 23/02/2009: Red Hat Does Whitepaper Gig; New Ubuntu Feature
  • 03.18.10 Links 18/3/2010: Steam and Linux; Red Hat’s CEO Talks
  • 06.29.10 Links 29/6/2010: New Fedora Project Leader
  • 11.15.10 Links 15/11/2010: GNU/Linux in Indian Desktops, China Has World’s Top Supercomputer (With GNU/Linux)
  • 03.09.12 Links 9/3/2012: KDE 4.8.1, New Wine
  • 12.29.12 Links 29/12/2012: Calculate Linux 13, Finnix 107
  • 01.22.13 Links 22/1/2013: Linux Outpaces Market Share of Windows, Mozilla Phone, Fedora Reviews Aplenty
  • 03.22.13 Links 22/3/2013: Chinese Government Chooses GNU/Linux
  • 07.04.13 Links 4/7/2013: Release of Fedora 19, Drone Strikes Resume
  • 06.23.14 Links 23/6/2014: New Releases of Opera, MakuluLinux, Netrunner
  • 12.02.14 Links 2/12/2014: Chromebooks Surge, Android Outselling iOS Sixfold
  • 12.19.14 Links 19/12/2014: Robolinux 7.7.1 LXDE, Red Hat Thriving
  • 08.29.16 Links 29/8/2016: Linux 4.8 RC4, Maru OS Source Code
  • 03.18.17 Links 18/3/2017: New Stables Kernels, Wine 2.4
  • 08.20.18 Links 20/8/2018: Flatpak’s 1.0 Milestone, New GIMP, New Chinese Distro Releases
  • 01.08.19 Links 8/1/2019: Godot 3.1 Reaches Beta, Tidelift Gets Money
  • 01.09.19 Links 9/1/2019: Qubes OS 4.0.1, Bash 5.0
  • 01.23.19 Links 23/1/2019: Cockpit 186, Wine 4.0, Apt Security Issue
  • 04.26.19 Links 26/4/2019: Best GNU/Linux Laptops and More