Free Software Exploitation: Microsoft Puppet Novell’s Poor Business Strategy

"ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, LinuxWorld and many other publications tainted by Microsoft influence"

"Windows has not just a marketing problem; there are some more critical problems, such as those which result in approximately 320,000,000 zombie PCs"

"Novell did not merely sign a deal with Microsoft. It conspired because it needed the money"

"Microsoft loves what it pretentiously calls “piracy”. It owes its very existence to it"

"There is actually a lot of positive news for ODF"

"Could it be because reports are suggesting that Google Apps, for which Chrome is optimised, are ’stealing’ customers from Microsoft? Sales of Microsoft Office are already declining"

"This is not procurement. This is sleaze"

"It seems to be running Microsoft Windows"

"Former Microsoft executives inherit the Beeb"

"Novell is making me sick too. I happen to run on a discussion about Why is there no Open Source SLES"

"Remember that Microsoft admits loving DRM. Not only this; it fights for it, along with partners. By association, needn’t Novell learn to love it too?"

"warned that Novell would possibly ‘poison’, using patents, some good projects like OpenOffice.org, maybe even the Linux kernel."

"Microsoft pushes its selfish ‘agenda’ — so to speak — and forces it upon GNU/Linux as a whole via Novell"

"Novell and Microsoft may stubbornly insist that they are separate entities while openly describing themselves as “partners”. As we pointed out several times before, those two companies seem to be getting only nearer as time goes by"

"A unique Microsoft/Novell lovefest, which they even brag about over the Internet"

"It can easily make all users of all platforms technically dependent on Microsoft (documentation, distribution, licences, legal threats, etc.)"

"Microsoft’s image as a company has degraded"