Posted on 12/06/2006 10:26:45 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Tough times at Linus Torvald's employer...had to cut 1/3 of their staff this week, CEO resigns:
Linux lab cuts staff, focuses on legal issues
http://news.com.com/Linux+lab+cuts+staff%2C+focuses+on+legal+issues/2100-7344_3-6140514.html
Ive heard iffy things about novell support and I have a large RedHat footprint that I don't really want to turn into a heterogeneus Linux environment.
Still if I was looking at starting a Linux environment I would give Novell a shot. This move is a *really* good thing for Linux and either Red Hat will follow suit (assuming MS is not in bed with Novell just to Bury RedHat) or they will face a much more competitive Linux market (which in the end is good for everyone).
As to your article I *might* be willing to go with Oracle on oracle servers only but there is no way I would go there with anything else.
RedHat has a reputation of being expensive, and compared to novell they might be. I find not too many people know redhat beyond the price they post on their website. Programs like the development entitlements (for Development and Testing) provides a great value. For production systems that you run for a cost of anywhere between 300 and 2400 dollars you can run with rhn support a test or development box for 50$.
RedHat also offers discounts of up to 50% depending on how many servers you are running. Right now Im in about the 30% tier.
RedHat also offers a discount of 25% for three year deals.
Finally if you buy an entitlement while you own another entitlement you will not be charged more than the lowest you have paid so right now I pay about 1400 for the most expensive rhel licenses (AS Premium) and I pay a touch over 200 for any ES and I am locked into that price until at least 2009.
The fear is that they will use the deal with Novell to argue that Novell also believes that Linux violates Microsoft's patents (whether it does or not and, if so, whether they are legit or not).
Therefore, they would tell the judge, only Novell has a legal right to distribute Linux as they are the only ones who have a deal with Microsoft. If the judge buys that, other Linux vendors (like RedHat) could be shut down and possibly OSS developers in the US. If it worked, Microsoft would narrow the Linux competition down to just Novell and then, well, goodbye Novell.
Will it happen? I don't know, but the idea is hardly paranoid given Microsoft's anti-competitive past, today's overly-litigious society and the fact that, most likely, every piece of software violates some patent.
It wasn't used in a technological context. It was used in a liberal, it's-cool-to-use-African-words context. From the article:
"Society is important because of Ubuntu."
The definition of Ubuntu (once again, your link): " ubuntu, noun. Humanity or fellow feeling; kindness [Nguni]." Collins English Dictionary
You may or may not know this, but the word existed long before a South African entrepreneur named Mark Shuttleworth branded a distro with the name.
I think Golden Eagle uses Ubuntu!
That was a hope of SCO and its funding source, Microsoft. Damages to IBM's business (including AIX) from SCO's actions are part of IBM's counterclaims.
This was all explained to GE before when he tried yet again to make Linux a political issue like his partners in crime Richard Stallman and Howard Dean.
Your partners in crime, not mine, since you're the one always defending them. LOL at your pathetic absurdity, but as we know leftists have no shame.
Then your thinker is obviously broke. Foreign leftist crap that Clinton likes, you won't catch me anywhere near it.
I do not have a philosophical approach to software -- you and Stallman do. I do not politicize software -- you and Howard Dean do. Your buddies, not mine.
Uh, GE, basic comprehension issue here again. We've explained it to you before: It's as if someone named a Linux distro "Mission Accomplished" and you saying Bush loves Linux because he said "Mission Accomplished" in a speech.
Oh, I know. But then again, has he learned his lesson on anything, yet?
Thinker?
Iggle, just stop already--seriesly...
Iggle...honestly...don't you get tired of exposing yourself as an idiot every time you log on to FR?
ROFL, someone spending their time defending leftists is hardly anyone to be calling other longtime posters idiots. Exactly what have you brought to the discussion other than an obvious lack of knowledge on these subjects? Can you post a single thing of relevance when it comes to Richard Stallman's "manifesto" and Howard Dean's "open source politics"? Other than you like them?
So you support leftists like Stallman, who want all software to be free, including this:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/12/10/0151206.shtml
And you believe that US companies and individuals should embrace all "open source" products, have them managed by some "community" or government, rather than rely on our existing capitalist industries and markets:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/08/2030246
Apparently so, then all you have in your defense is calling me an idiot. LOL
You assume a lot...of course, when your head is buried that deeply in your rear storage area, it's easy to assume.
Well you're welcome to attempt a comment that indicates some basic knowledge of these subjects, but so far you don't even seem to grok /. And that's speaking your language.
The difference, iggle, is that while all of us that support open source software know what RMS's politics are, we also know that he is basically a figurehead. He's also counter-balanced by people who are not leftists, like Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens.
On the other hand, you rabidly support Bill Gates, also a well-known leftist.
It's called hypocrisy, and it's one of the reasons that we all laugh at you and call you an idiot.
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