theregister.co.uk — With a few blog posts by top execs, Novell ended out 2007 by admitting that cozying up with a monopolist, predatory company and invalidating all that is open source ...was a great idea. Hey, they made off like a bandit with some sorely needed cash; who cares what the long term effects are on the community!
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schestowitzJan 4, 2008
FTA: "Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really good idea."<a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/kill_novell_allchin_fingers/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/kill_novel ...</a>Jim Allchin, whose job these days is to pilot Windows 2000 into harbour, was a key Microsoft figure in the Caldera case email chains, and was seriously worried about Novell. On 9 September 1991, he emailed Bill Gates: "We must slow down Novell. ... As you said Bill, it has to be dramatic ... We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger."