Re: The new Hula project

> yes, novell's purpose is to make lot's o' money selling their 
> proprietary stuff.
> this is a step in the right direction, but it is also an indication of 
> the fear the industry has towards microsoft that they're
> giving away this much.  the novell execs i met at linux world 2004, were 
> really struggling with the open source
> development model and the gpl idea in general.  how to include the 
> community in the process, etc.

Just as an aside in their defense, we had a Novell intern at our LUG
just last night talking about Beagle/Dashboard/Mono.  And we've had
Novell sales and technical people present several times, and a couple of
times they brought an entourage.  Every Novell employee I've met or
dealt with totally gets the Open Source idea and has been excited about
it.  They've even helped me out on my own internal projects a couple of
times, with no discussion about a fee.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming....

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