Comments on: Who would you rather work for Novell or Sun http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/ Use a pencil, lets not build another space pen. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Chasing Nuts » Blog Archive » SUN the hyperactive company http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/#comment-13 Chasing Nuts » Blog Archive » SUN the hyperactive company Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:49:45 +0000 http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/#comment-13 [...] Anderson wrote a nice response to Aaron Toponce points. What are your [...] [...] Anderson wrote a nice response to Aaron Toponce points. What are your [...]

]]> By: Josef Assad http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/#comment-11 Josef Assad Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:15:26 +0000 http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/#comment-11 People tend also to forget about this: http://en.opensuse.org/Novell_Supported_Projects People tend also to forget about this:

http://en.opensuse.org/Novell_Supported_Projects

]]> By: Pascal Bleser http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/#comment-10 Pascal Bleser Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:37:08 +0000 http://blog.sontek.net/2007/10/16/who-would-you-rather-work-for-novell-or-sun/#comment-10 Hey John. 1-click install has been initiated and developed by <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/" rel="nofollow">Benjamin Weber</a>, an openSUSE community member who's not working for Novell. And if you're holding software produced by Novell and Sun side-to-side, you can't seriously have Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, Compiz against OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris. On point 2, Novell may have opensourced some of the software it has developed as proprietary (Hula, Bandit, umm.. others?) but again, it doesn't really compare to the huge amount of code opened up by Sun (just take OpenJDK, that's the biggest open source code contribution ever done at once). But apart from that, I wholly agree (not necessarily that Novell > Sun, but about your replies): 3) Sun indeed made a deal with MS, even before Novell did. 4) if the OP meant the financial side of things, Sun has been on a really, really sharp razor's edge for quite some time now 5) and indeed, that one is ludicrous, as Novell went against SCO and contributes patents to OIN's pool (http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/) Hey John.

1-click install has been initiated and developed by Benjamin Weber, an openSUSE community member who’s not working for Novell.
And if you’re holding software produced by Novell and Sun side-to-side, you can’t seriously have Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, Compiz against OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris.

On point 2, Novell may have opensourced some of the software it has developed as proprietary (Hula, Bandit, umm.. others?) but again, it doesn’t really compare to the huge amount of code opened up by Sun (just take OpenJDK, that’s the biggest open source code contribution ever done at once).

But apart from that, I wholly agree (not necessarily that Novell > Sun, but about your replies):
3) Sun indeed made a deal with MS, even before Novell did.
4) if the OP meant the financial side of things, Sun has been on a really, really sharp razor’s edge for quite some time now
5) and indeed, that one is ludicrous, as Novell went against SCO and contributes patents to OIN’s pool (http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/)

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