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Novell Buys Ximian
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)."
Me no like!
Gnome wasnt built in a day.
SCO, Novell and Canopy group, all have (at least) one person in common: Ray Noorda
He is/has been:
founder of Caldera
Chairman of Novell
Founder of Canopy group
Moreover, the mormon Church is involved somewhere there too (3 in SCO's board are mormon). What does that mean? I have no idea.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
I doubt Novell's any less of a crook than SCO, atleast as far as their position towards Linux is concerned. Atleast SCO is openly against Linux, Novell tried to curry favor initially, and later gave up without a semblance of resistance.
Secondly, I doubt Novell and SCO are very different at the top - both seem to be owned by the same set of 'litigious bastards' (to quote Slashdot).
My reading is that SCO wanted to buy Evolution and dump it like AOL did Netscape. Since it'd look obvious, they asked Novell to do the job for them instead. I can't think of any other explanation for this, specially since Novell has had very little to do with Linux and Open Source.
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
From internal sources of some Ximian developers I have heard that Novell are planning to discontinue working on GNOME and go for KDE. The employees have been instructed to make themselves confortable with the new situation. All further development on GNOME projects should be stopped. So all work that Ximian has done on GNOME such as bonobo, orbit2 and some minor other things are canceld from this day. Novell is not interested to continue working on GNOME.
omfg, that would explain a lot!
And remember kids: Never trust a computer you can actually lift.
My whole city still runs on [sic] Novel.
Please let me know what city that is so I don't move there. And no, it has nothing to do with your spelling. I used to work for a local government that still runs Novell and it was a fuckfest trying to keep it running, trying to pay for it, trying to find new employees, trying to keep PHBs off your back, trying to find applications, trying to justify it every budget cycle, but worst of all - trying to keep the religous devoted CNAs from slashing your tires and keying your car's paintjob for suggesting any other solution might work.
If I can do anything to keep Novell out of where I work now, I will.
Ha! So long Ximian, it was nice knowing you. Novell will run them into the groud like they do with everything else they touch.