● 11.22.06

●● Novell Admits Being Selfish?

Posted in Deals, Finance at 5:06 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Slip of one’s mouth or true admission of egocentricity?

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John Dragoon, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Novell, based in Provo, Utah, told eWEEK in an interview following the release of the open letter that when a customer is making a decision whether or not to deploy in certain environments and there are impediments to that deployment, whether real or imagined, “It is in Novell’s interest – selfish interest, I will admit – to advance-remove whatever those inhibitors be to the advancement of Linux and open source.”

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Companies are entitled to pursue their own interests, but spitting at the community that voluntarily put the foundations is simply unacceptable.

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