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Novell Buys Ximian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-cage-full-of-monkeys dept.

Quite a number of people have been submitting the news that Ximian has been purchased by Novell. All I've found so far is the press release linked to above; more links as they come in. Looks like Nat & Miguel will be remaining around, and Novell's continuing to expand its Open Source commitments. Update: 08/04 17:30 GMT by S : viewstyle writes "According to an interview with Ximian's CTO Miguel de Icaza at Eweek.com, Ximian won't be affected at all by Novell's buyout, and will be shipping a PowerPC version of Mono (preview release in Sept)."

4 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I was going to comment, but by inteller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's the same logic behind pimps and hos.....whatever you can throw out there on the street to make some money for yo broke ass.

  2. Re:RIP Ximian and Novell by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, the Ximian logo rather shows a diving monkey

    I personally always thought he looks more like the fuckingroovin character.

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  3. Abuse of Moderation here... by jkrise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The parent has got rightfully modded to +5, but my other post with similar sentiments lies at -1 Flamebait!

    Looks like the mods are having a field day!

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  4. Re:What does it mean? by md17 · · Score: 1, Offtopic



    Saying that "Mormons are in control of Novell, Canopy, etc. because the companies are in Utah and have Mormon employees, board members, etc." is like saying that the "German government is in charge of United Linux because many of the SUSE employees are Germans."

    No, sorry your references are messed up. Here I'll show you why with a little program:

    - org.class snippet -

    public String toString() {
    return people + " are in control of " + name + " because many of the " + name + " employees are " + people + " and live in " + location + ".";
    }

    - showOrg.class snippet -

    org1.name = "Novell";
    org1.location = "Utah";
    org1.people = "Mormons";

    org2.name = "SuSE";
    org2.location = "Germany";
    org2.people = "Germans";

    System.out.println(org1);
    System.out.println(org2);

    - output -
    Mormons are in control of Novell because many of the Novell employees are Mormons and live in Utah.
    Germans are in control of SuSE because many of the SuSE employees are Germans and live in Germany.

    See the problem with your statement is:
    "Germans" != "German Goverment"
    "Mormons" == "Mormons"