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Novell Partners With EFF on Patent Busting

Seymour writes "Novell and the EFF have announced that Novell will be contributing to the EFF's Patent Busting Project. Novell will also support the EFF's efforts toward patent reform, including with the WIPO. Could this be Novell trying to get back in the good graces of Linux users? 'Novell's agreement with Microsoft has been a source of contention within open source circles, with one Red Hat executive accusing the company of appeasing Microsoft; others have accused Novell of violating the GPL with the agreement. Either way, signing the deal with Microsoft did a lot to sully Novell in the eyes of many Linux users, and Novell's decision to link up with the EFF on patents may have been made with an eye towards getting some of its street cred back with the OSS community.'"

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  1. This does not make SENSE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    * HARRY POTTER LIVES, he is a Horcrux and haves a Kid with Ginny Weasly. They get Married. * Voldemor DIES. * Ron and Hermoine get Married. * Fred and Bill both have kids. * The Last Text is a headline in the Daily Prophet about the Murder of Vernon and Petunia Dursley. * Harry see HIS PARENTS, Dumbledore, Sirius, Remus & Tonks (Remus & Tonks both die). * Harry makes a Horcrux while killing Voldemor. * The room with the viel is the final showdoan room. * The Voices and People that Voldemor have killed behind the viel will help Harry Win. * Malfoy helps him by standing by as occlumens blocking Harrys mind from Voldemor (Since Voldemor KILLED Pansy). * In the in-between after fighting voldemore Dudley KILLS HIS PARENTS! Copy&Paste everywhere!!!!!!!

  2. Not at ALL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    * HARRY POTTER LIVES, he is a Horcrux and haves a Kid with Ginny Weasly. They get Married.
    * Voldemor DIES.
    * Ron and Hermoine get Married.
    * Fred and Bill both have kids.

    * The Last Text is a headline in the Daily Prophet about the Murder of Vernon and Petunia Dursley.
    * Harry makes a Horcrux while killing Voldemor.
    * The room with the viel is the final showdoan room.

    * Harry see HIS PARENTS, Dumbledore, Sirius, Remus & Tonks (Remus & Tonks both die).
    * The Voices and People that Voldemor have killed behind the viel will help Harry Win.
    * Malfoy helps him by standing by as occlumens blocking Harrys mind from Voldemor (Since Voldemor KILLED Pansy).
    * In the in-between after fighting voldemore Dudley KILLS HIS PARENTS!

  3. Novell destroyed Suse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Suse was the prime example of excellent German engineering skills! Suse was built and documented so well that it was like turbo powered German BMW that worked like a Swiss clock. Then came Novell and messed it all up! Novell, you wrecked Suse and then teamed up with microshXt and now you are totally lost like a small child who has lost his mother in a huge shopping mall.
     
    Why??? Why did you destroy Suse???

  4. Re:How curious by mrsteveman1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank you for posting that link, it seems to be easier to just refer people to basic information than to argue at this point.

    Too many people are complaining about things they either don't understand or refuse to believe.

    If you don't want to use OpenSuSE or other products, don't, but stop pretending like Novell products are evil without any valid reasons.

  5. Re:Doesn't really work like that by IwantToKeepAnon · · Score: 0, Troll

    > If thats the case we would of seen similar
    > reactions from Redhat or another enterprising
    > companies that "sell" Linux.

    Like the OP abandoned Novell, I won't use Redhat.
    Not cuz it "sells" Linux, but b/c they said F/U,
    we will only sell sever editions.

    I've never tried Fedora Core. It maybe the
    bestest distro ever .... I won't install it
    period. Just my way of saying F/U RedHat.

    When I was a child I thought as a child, I
    reasoned as a child, I used SuSE as a child.
    When I became a man, I put childish things
    behind me, I installed Gentoo.

    (Note: that was SuSE pre Novell, just so you know)

    --
    "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy