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Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-gonna-get-stranger dept.

dotnothing writes "microsoft-watch.com has an interview with Chris Stone, who is the Vice Chairman of Novell. Stone says that Novell will be introducing a Linux distribution with Novell products and the Ximian desktop, but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft. He also expressed some gratitude to Red Hat for countersuing SCO."

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  1. not to compete with M$? by gurisees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft

    so, will they install Ximian on XP?

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  2. Don't buy SCO. by nuggz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't buy out SCO, it is a bad investment.

    To buy SCO you would need a reason why this is a good use of money, to make them go away is probaly not a good use of corporate funds.

    Those millions could do a lot of legal fighting, or development, or even advertising. All with a better ROI then removing SCO.

  3. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by alienw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't you people get a clue first? No underlying Mono infrastructure is threatened by patents, since ECMA requires that all patents be licensed at no charge, and .Net is standardized with them. There are a few pieces which could potentially be patented, but their removal would not significantly harm Mono. If Microsoft still hasn't sued the Wine project, there's a very slim chance they could sue Mono.

    Your other side of the argument is basically the "not invented here" thing. If Microsoft invented it, it must be bad for free software. It's not like Microsoft can force Mono to change its ways, so I fail to see your point. Mono is not a Wine clone, it's a development framework for Linux, one that could potentially be very useful for writing portable software.

    I don't see anyone here bitching about Java, even though it's also a similar, proprietary technology controlled by one party -- Sun. Hell, I would say that Linux is more of a threat to Sun than Microsoft. So why isn't Java a threat to Linux?

  4. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by alienw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OS/2 ran Win3.1 apps natively, so nobody wrote OS/2 apps, but Win3.1 apps.

    If OS/2 hadn't run Windows apps, nobody would have ever used it. The reason it died was the high price and poor hardware support (it didn't run on non-IBM machines without a lot of tweaking). Stop using that example, for fuck's sake.

    The lesson is that as soon as you support somebody else's standard, then nobody has any reason to use your standard.

    Does linux have anything remotely resembling .Net? Other than mono, of course.