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By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won’t get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft.
OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license with Microsoft drives the controversy over Big Greens [...]

Novell is out with its periodic survey of Linux adoption and as always it is filled with big, big promises.
* More than half plan to “accelerate” Linux adoption “this year.” * That’s 72% are looking at this on the server. * And 68% looking [...]

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Novell is now facing the consequences of leaving its fate in another company’s hands.
Its terrible horrible, no good, very bad quarter was driven partly by its troubles in the proprietary market, partly by its failure to line up the big Linux licensing deals that came in the wake of [...]

Novell’s $340 million lifeline from Microsoft appears to be losing its potency.
Although Microsoft originally gifted Novell $240 million to help fight Red Hat, and later added another $100 million to the pile, it doesn’t seem to be enough to revive Novell’s fortunes, as the company reported disappointing first-quarter earnings and a slide even in its [...]

It’s not all about the code in the Linux ecosystem. Any Linux project needs leadership. Markus Rex is one such leader.
For most of the last year, Rex was the CTO of the Linux Foundation, on loan from his employer Novell. Now, he’s back with Novell, where he is responsible for Novell’s open source and open [...]

One of the great promises of software is its infinite malleability: software can be whatever you want, so long as you have the skills necessary (and legal rights) to modify it.
Despite this promise, software has long sought to replicate physical goods: mass-produced with customization, if any, coming post-sale by a system integrator or other consultant. [...]

Is OpenOffice.org (OOo), the popular free office application, “a profoundly sick project,” as developer Michael Meeks alleges? Or are his comments a poorly concealed effort to promote Go-OO, Novell’s version of OOo, as the anti-Novell lobby suggests?
The answers to these questions are important, because the flame war that continually threatens to erupt over them — [...]

It seems like a bit of a mystery how open source software ever sees the light of day. The idea of a large number of people working for glory and the greater good rather than recompense seems too idealistic to be true.
In the early days this is exactly what happened, but now commercial companies have [...]

In the last major economic downturn, Linux established itself as a widely-accepted enterprise operating system, benefiting a lively ecosystem of vendors such as Red Hat and Novell. The return of tough economic times puts the open source alternative again front and center, this time with focus on databases and higher-level software applications.
I believe we’ve entered [...]