SilentCoder: UWC Head of Computer Science Declares: "We Will Completely Rid Ourselves of Novell" | Linux Today

SilentCoder: UWC Head of Computer Science Declares: “We Will Completely Rid Ourselves of Novell”

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 27, 2006

“Thus far, I have deliberately not said anything about Novell’s
partnership with Microsoft. I am after all a distro developer
myself and I consider it very bad form to criticize other
distros–I have always rather chosen to focus on what I believe
OpenLab does right instead (whereas the founder of another distro
actually sent a mail to the opensuze mailinglist announcing in
effect ‘now that your distro sucks even more, why not try
ours’).

“Nevertheless, something with such a massive impact on the
entire community cannot be completely ignored. Rather then, than my
own opinions, I share with you the following letter, sent by
Professor Derek Keats of the University of the Western Cape to
Novell SA CEO Stafford Masie…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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