openSUSE Conference: A Time for Introspection?
In case you missed it, and many seem to have, the second annual conference took place in Nürnberg, Germany on Oct. 20-23. The conference, which had the theme "Collaboration across Borders," seemed...
View ArticleNovell launches public beta for yet another online groupware app
Novell, which was a network operating system vendor, then a directory vendor then an email and groupware vendor then a Linux provider, then whatever it is now, wants to go back to being an email and...
View ArticlePrivate-equity group Attachmate buys Novell for $2.2 billion
Private-equity group Attachmate Corp. will purchase enterprise infrastructure software vendor Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) for $2.2 billion, or $6.10 per share.read more
View ArticleThe End of the Penguin is Not Nigh
That fact is, that while many in the Linux community are wondering if UNIX is now owned by a Microsoft-led investment group, we don't know if that's what has happened, and even if it was, it doesn't...
View ArticleNovell is dead and Microsoft has eaten its heart
Novell was kind of a conservative company, not a natural revolutionary; but it helped launch the LAN revolution and, through that revolutions by email, Internet, Web and consumerization. It only...
View ArticleAttachmate may keep 882 Unix patents, not Microsoft
Attachmate is now saying the acquisition of Novell does not include a transfer of 882 Unix-related patents to Microsoft, which helped fund the deal. read more
View ArticleA Schizophrenic Look at Microsoft, Novell, and Patents
Microsoft's role in snapping up the 882 Novell patents for $450 million makes no difference in how Microsoft regards open source and how open source regards Microsoft. Not one bit of difference at...
View ArticleAttachmate reveals little about plans for SUSE
In an effort to figure out just what's going to happen to Novell's Linux business after an Attachmate acquisition, openSUSE Community Manager Jos Poortvliet interviewed Jeff Hawn, chairman and CEO of...
View ArticleGroklaw: Don't go home, go big
The time has come for Pamela Jones to seriously reevaluate the roles she and her team of Groklaw volunteers have within the free and open source community. Such a reevaluation should not end with the...
View ArticleWhen trouble strikes, who speaks for open source?
For the record, I'm not terribly happy about the patent purchase agreement that's running in parallel to the Novell-Attachmate acquisition deal. The thought of 882 Novell patents getting sold to CPTN...
View ArticleCPTN Holdings still alive and well
In a seeming reversal, the holding consortium formed by Apple, EMC, Microsoft, and Oracle, known as CPTN Holdings, LLC, withdrew its application from the German Federal Cartel Office, leaving many...
View ArticleLibreOffice released, Foundation still aborning
Good stuff is coming out in the new release of LibreOffice. But while the developers are getting code done, organizers of the Document Foundation are still trying to raise funds to legally...
View ArticleIs it really a business vs. open source world?
Look at the news and the blogosphere, and lately it seems like every major distro company's in some kind of hot water with various elements of the community. Is it an inevitable product of business...
View ArticleLessons learned from Groklaw
Pamela Jones has announced that she will be retiring original content this May 16 on the legal analysis site that grew to fame within and without the open source community as it rose to do battle with...
View ArticleQuestioning the future of OpenOffice.org and ODF
There is very little known about Oracle's exact plans for OpenOffice.org. Nor are Attachmate's plans for Novell's work on LibreOffice clear. With an uncertain future, what does this mean for these...
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