Boycott Novell is one opinionated site. If you think I'm pro-Linux and hard on Microsoft, you haven't been reading Roy Schestowitz, who makes me look as mild as a May day. It's also made enemies.

The site claims to be "Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications".

The keyword is "Reality". Unfortunately, there is not a lot of reality or even any facts behind Boycott Novell's articles, which seem to come several times daily. Let me explain:

Ordinarily I would be as thrilled as any other blogger to be linked to from far and wide across the web, but what Boycott Novell is linking to here has little if anything to do with their stated mandate.

Response to people who mischaracterise Boycott Novell and falsely attribute false words to it

Foes of Boycott Novell go down low and make up dirt in order to paint the Web site in a negative light

Known critic of Boycott Novell tries to justify choice of SUSE; GNU India responds to Boycott Novell protest

I read the Boycott Novell (BN) site fairly regularly, even if I don't always agree with what it has to say. I consider Roy Schestowitz, one of the site's creators, a good guy and (thus far) we have had a very cordial relationship. But the tone of the BN site is almost always in rant mode, which is not my preferred reading style; and Schestowitz and I have some other core differences too.

Microsoft TE Jonathan Wong keeps an eye on Boycott Novell

It seems as if even the satirists have gotten fired up at Roy Schestowitz, main contributor to Boycott Novell. In this link is an "Open Letter" that they have written for him. How nice.