As many people in the open source / free software community I am very intrigued about the entire Novell / Microsoft deal. Just to get some insight I have been collecting articles / blog posts:
November 8th
- Novell opens legal books to GPL pundits
- Luis Villa: more thoughts on MS and Novell (with a dash of Oracle, Sun, and Ubuntu)
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Novell is not SCO
November 7th
- The financial breakdown of the deal
- Bruce Perens: Novell is the new SCO
- Jeff Jaffe CTO Novell blog entry
- Novell press release
- Novell on file formats (ODF)
- Havoc says “huh?”
November 4th
November 3rd
- Redhat gives it a spin
- More response from redhat
- InfoWorld article “The road to the Microsoft tax is paved with Novell’s best intentions”
November 2nd
It all seems like striking a deal with the cylons, and that didn’t work out to be quite what they expected… “We will leave you alone”… couple of months later “We changed our minds”…