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● 05.14.07

●● Novell Put Its Own Customers at Risk

Posted in Free/Libre Software, FUD, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patents at 10:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

So there I was having a quick glance at Novell-tailored RSS feeds. One particular headline caught my attention. It reads “Rich Media Network Insight24 Showcases Novell’s ‘Linux Security and Assurance’ podcast”.

=> ↺ “Rich Media Network Insight24 Showcases Novell’s ‘Linux Security and Assurance’ podcast”

Hmmm… somewhat comical for somebody to deliver ‘Novell’s Linux Security and Assurance’ if interpreted in the wrong context, no? Novell has opened the floodgates to threats when it offered admission that Linux was ‘unclean’. To its credit, Novell has some decent businessmen. The company received over $0.3 billion for this admission. Essentially, it swallowed the bait and it didn’t taste nice. Based on some financial transactions, we suspect that its executives received some good ol’ payola. Maybe it was a by-product and maybe we are just over-speculative.

=> ↺ swallowed the bait | ↺ didn’t taste nice | ↺ some financial transactions

At some stage, Novell has said that its deal with Microsoft does not guarantee that Microsoft won’t sue Novell customers. Interestingly enough, putting one’s own customer in jeopardy is exactly what we find in Microsoft. Suing one’s own customer is a dilemma and endless debate that Microsoft itself is now perplexed by. Just published in The Register:

=> ↺ Microsoft itself is now perplexed by

With this unbelievable, weak reply, Ballmer chose to threaten many of Microsoft’s largest customers with the possibility of legal action, if they’ve picked up Linux, as most of Microsoft’s largest customers have. In so doing, the CEO replaced Gates’s straight-forward feistiness of yesteryear with a vacuous grimace delivered via the vehicle of a business publication.

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