Thanks

I am sick and tired too of all the fud and spam polluting FS Daily by boycott Novell. FS Daily is in my rss feeds but as soon as I spot the name Komrad I delete it.

Amen.

I totally agree with this.
I'd also recommend you'd vote this one up:
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Boycott_Novell_Defenders_of_Freedom_or_...
The more dirt we dig up on them, the better.

We wrote a nice FAQ

We wrote a nice FAQ addressing a big chunk of the FUD on that site:
http://opensuse.org/FAQ:MS-Novell

Boycott Gnome

I could never be a "communist", nor am I autistic, but I'm currently reviewing my Kubuntu setup trying to eliminate all Gnome apps with Mono or .Net dependencies. Even my much-loved Synaptic pm might have to go.

I completely distrust the motives of M$-Novell and all that sails within it.

Fair is Fair

I operate under the principle of "fair is fair". The large majority of Boycott Novell articles do not adhere to that principle.

I cannot accept many of the claims because of the quality of the evidence used to support them. Quite often, the interpretation of the news that is reported is hyperbolic. Schestowitz then uses these interpretations as further evidence in later articles thus contributing to the amount of low quality evidence.

Overall, I cannot rate this site to be useful as there is too much noise to pick out the useful information.

About time!

Thanks, Christopher, for saying publicly what a lot of us have been thinking privately. I stopped bothering to read Boycott Novell weeks ago; but the sheer quantity of citations on fsdaily is getting irritating - and, in my view, reducing the reputation of fsdaily for promulgating quality articles.

Roy Schestowitz claims Miguel threatened him - yet another lie

Roy Schestowitz has blogged about this article and made the following claim:

Congratulations, Novell and/or OpenSUSE. You have reached an all-time low. Lower than Miguel de Icaza’a threats.

So I followed that link and found the following reference:

Miguel de Icaza said,

July 12, 2007 at 7:05 pm

The issue that I have with Roy statement is this paragraph, which is a complete fabrication:

“To repeat old facts, the developers were not part of the this decision, with the exception of a few prominent ones such as Miguel de Icaza, who is a VP. It was all done secretly. Jeremy Allison knew about it and he protested against the sneaky, 90th-minute inclusion of patent elements. These elements were not part of the original deal, which had been negotiated for months.”

From:
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/08/opensuse-image-problem/

As I said on those comments, I learned on the same day that Jeremy Allison learned about it (or perhaps the night before when I was told to go to Waltham).

Roy could make his points based on actual evidence, he does not need to manufacture them. I guess its just a cultural issue, Roy living in the UK, the land of the tabloid, he does not know better.

Miguel.

Does anyone see a threat there? No? Nor do I.

Now, if you continue reading... you discover that Roy has misled his readership. His excuse is:

Roy Schestowitz said,

July 12, 2007 at 7:40 pm

Miguel, you misread what I wrote, but I’ll cross it out to remove what might be perceived as an ambiguous statement.

[quote skipped, no need to echo it again]

I meant to say that you knew about it before the large majority of the developers were informed (possibly just after the announcement). I was not referring to Jeremy Allison there. Either way, thanks for the correction and I hope any room for misinterpretation is no longer there.

By the way, I don’t read tabloids. Can’t stand them.

Really, Roy? Because you could have fooled me. Your website reads EXACTLY like a tabloid.

Now what was my point? Oh yes, my point was that Roy claims that Miguel de Icaza knew about the deal before any of the developers and Roy was clearly trying to insinuate that Miguel was therefor involved in the deal making process.

This is a common mode of operandi for Roy... say one thing in such a way as to insinuate something else in order to get people angry with the person Roy is attacking and thus brainwash them into doing Roy's bidding.

It's actually quite funny watching Balzak get brainwashed by Roy.

Hey Balzak: Can you say "Baaahhhh"?