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GNOME and Novell: The FUD Stops Here

November 27, 2007 – 04:06

As a result of some confusion (and sadly, some very active, ugly and offensive muck-raking) in various sections of the community recently, I thought it might be interesting to do a review of GNOME’s relationship with Novell and some of the people involved in that relationship.
Due to my position as a director of the GNOME Foundation, […]

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Quelle surprise?

November 21, 2007 – 05:26

Federico, you might be learning the wrong lesson from this story, or possibly seeing only the Nail du Jour?
You don’t need a distributed revision control system to do the right thing by the communities who power your products.
If Novell had done this work upstream in the first place, it would have saved everyone a lot of time, […]

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QoTD: Steve Ballmer

October 9, 2007 – 14:13

“People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us.” — Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat
Thanks again, Novell!

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