● 12.14.06

●● OSDL Changes Due to Remark on Novell/Microsoft Deal

Posted in Action, Law, OSDL at 12:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

We recently mentioned an E-mail which suggested that Stuart Cohen’s departure from OSDL was related to Novell. There is a now a more formal statement from InformationWeek.

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Cohen angered members of the open source community last month by endorsing Novell’s agreement with Microsoft to work on interoperability between Novell’s Suse Linux and Windows. Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer’s subsequent comments that Linux most likely contains Windows code didn’t help.

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