Novell will make 'immature' Linux [LWN.net]

Novell will make 'immature' Linux

Posted Apr 16, 2003 15:45 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
Parent article: Novell will make 'immature' Linux robust and reliable (ComputerWorld)

Arent Novell and SCO (formerly Caldera) both majorly owned by the Canopy Group (spelling)? I am guessing that all that work IBM is getting sued for didnt help Linux mature after all.

Anyway, I wish this new fellow luck. Novell has had a bad history of overpromising.. From old co-workers who worked there.. they said it was a culture of not telling the boss a bad thing so CEO's always got word of a new money making agricultural product when the low end workers were saying it was bull-crap.

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Novell will make 'immature' Linux

Posted Apr 16, 2003 16:05 UTC (Wed) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

Novell has nothing to do with Canopy Group. Novell is where Ray Noorda got the money to start Canopy Group, if I recall correctly.

Novell will make 'immature' Linux

Posted Apr 16, 2003 20:00 UTC (Wed) by ronzone (guest, #10671) [Link]

As for the "maturity" issue, I'd mention one of my favorite items from
my collection of "really dumb programming" ideas.

It was standard practice in the NetWare code base to save a copy of
the stack pointer before calling most lan drives and/or protocol stacks.

Working in the depths of NetWare code, I remarked on what a shoddy practice this was - fater all, if the driver upon exiting wasn't in the
same place on the stack .... wasn't that a sign of a problem?

The essential attitude was one of well, that's the quickest way to ship
a product that doesn't obviously crash and burn ....

I.e., essentially upper-management of "tell us no problems, fire, ready, SHIP"!