[olug] OT Novell Linux gamble paying off.

Jeff Hinrichs jlh at cox.net
Wed Apr 21 23:47:04 UTC 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Brush" <bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: <dan at linder.org>; "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] OT Novell Linux gamble paying off.
[..snip..]
> I don't actually see this being that hard for them.  Anyone who hasn't
done
> it should browse around forge.novell.com.  Novell has a lot of OSS
projects
> there, plus they contribute to several others.  Last month they
> open-sourced their iFolder product and that piece of software is nothing
> short of awesome.  IIRC a good chunk of the LDAP code out there was
> contributed by Novell.  I think the one area they don't contribute is
> kernel development, but I could be wrong on that.
>
Can you talk more about iFolder and what cool things you saw?  It sounds
like a portion of the chandler http://www.osafoundation.org/ .  Ability to
share documents among users and operating systems in particular.

-Jeff



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