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ACCC clears Optus to scrap HFC network and use NBN instead
The ACCC has cleared, provisionally, the proposed deal between Optus and NBN Co under which Optus is to be paid around $800m to shut down its HFC network and transfer customers onto the NBN. read moreWarning, poachers on the loose
Sam Varghese
Monday, 27 November 2006 02:11
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Since the news of the Novell deal broke, there has been talk of developers at the company being unhappy to the extent that they are reconsidering their involvement with the company. But in the FOSS world, this business of trying to lure away people isn't generally considered good taste. Shuttleworth's post shows that despite his involvement in the community - and even his background as Debian developer - there are some things about FOSS which he just doesn't understand.
Every company which markets GNU/Linux is ultimately concerned with just one thing - the bottom line. Strangely, few companies have come to understand that maintaining their credibility in the community pays dividends - which finally expresses itself as part of that very bottom line.
Shuttleworth has done himself and a distribution which has plenty of street cred little good by his actions. It is time to take a much more long-range view of things, methinks.
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