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December 31, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Post-Novell interview with Jeremy Allison

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Roy Schestowitz interviewed Jeremy over on the Boycott Novell blog. I've been a fan of JA since I met him via LinuxWorld. It's hard to find guys who are so technically adept that also understand the business and social aspects of this whole open source miasma. Google is lucky to have him.

Hopefully the text above covers much of that. The long term impact of the deal I think will be a negative for Novell and Microsoft, and I’m sorry about that. I don’t think it will allow Novell to change the market share equation for Linux, which currently is overwhelmingly Red Hat as it just tries to put Linux under more of a legal cloud, which of course was what Microsoft wanted in the first place. Novell gave it to them without Microsoft having to do anything risky like suing Linux users (all of which would also be Microsoft customers). It didn’t cost them much - only $400 million. At least when Sun sold out in the EU case they got $2 billion.

Previously:
Jeremy Allison resigns from Novell in protest

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on December 31, 2006 08:30 PM

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