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Novell 'Drinking Their Own Champagne'

Posted by timothy on from the consider-the-source dept.

TheMMaster writes "According to Novell, they will be using their own flavour of Linux (SUSE) on the desktops of their 6000+ workers. While this was already known for quite some time, what wasn't quite so known was why and how they did it. Novell is moving from Microsoft to Linux and OpenOffice. Here's how it's being done."

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  1. Re:NO ex-M$! by Bastian · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hasn't the SCO fiasco taught you anything about what can happen if someone even makes up a story that your project benefited from the knowledge of somebody who helped write a competing product?

    If it came out that a M$ employee who worked with an Office program's file format were involved in OpenOffice.org, you can be sure that both Sun and OpenOffice would be keel-hauled - if not by the courts, then by the cost of massive litigation.