Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Jun 2007 18:38 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva has made a formal statement of its position regarding the recent Microsoft deals by other Linux vendors. "Up to now, there has been absolutely no hard evidence from any of the FUD propagators that Linux and open source applications are in breach of any patents. So we think that, as in any democracy, people are innocent unless proven guilty and we can continue working in good faith. So we don't believe it is necessary for us to get protection from MS to do our job or to pay protection money to anyone."
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RE[2]: Mandriva is doing ok
by alucinor on Tue 19th Jun 2007 21:03
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Novell IS a dying company. They're losing Netware customers faster than they're gaining Linux customers. They post losses year after year now since 2001 I believe. Most of their Linux revenue this past year has come from the coupons bought by their biggest competitor, Microsoft. If that's not the smell of death, I don't know what is.
Frankly, who cares? Unless you have stock in them, I guess. Their "hundreds and hundreds" of Linux engineers will find work elsewhere, since open source programming IS a transferable skill, y'know.
Edited 2007-06-19 21:06
RE[3]: Mandriva is doing ok
by alucinor on Tue 19th Jun 2007 21:36
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2007-05-05
You're really really overtrivialising large and much more complex matters. Novell were never a dying company, or a company etc on their way out, despite what you might say. They have hundreds and hundreds of Linux engineers (far more than Mandriva and Ubuntu put together).
None of these companies have joined any "FUD army" because they haven't made any FUD claims (if you think they have, I'd like to hear them). Novell have explicitly stated <http://opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS> that they do not think Linux violates any of MS's patents, so Ballmer and others in Microsoft can claim whatever they want. Novell have only ever said the direct opposite.