Novell agrees to be acquired by Attachmate.

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Nov 23 15:44:16 EST 2010


On 11/23/2010 10:20 AM, Ryan Lee Stanyan wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 23, 2010 09:31:38 am Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> From Groklaw:
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101122130625952
>> "Novell has sold itself
>> <http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmat
>> e-corporation/> to Attachmate Corporation. There is a side deal selling
>> "certain
>> intellectual property assets" to CPTN Holdings LLC, "a consortium of
>> technology companies organized by Microsoft". SUSE goes to Attachmate, I
>> gather, and will be a separate unit, so what goes to Microsoft's
>> consortium?"
>> ------
>>
>> I'm not sure how this will affect the Linux community at this time. Note
>> that SuSE will remain as a separate business unit under Attachmate.
>> Groklaw includes a number of press reactions to this. One question I
>> have is how this will affect the current SCO vs. Novell litigation that
>> is in it's second appeal. And, of course, the SCO vs. IBM litigation.
>> Currently the SCO vs. Novell case could possibly be heard by the 10th
>> Circuit on January 18th.
> I suspect that a lot of the patents the consortium will receive deal with 
> Wordperfect.  Despite the patent deal between Novell and Microsoft, there are 
> some continuing disputes concerning this.  Other than that, probably patents 
> dealing with networking functions that are relevant to NetWare.
>
> One thing that I'm worried about, as a KDE user is that if OpenSUSE goes away 
> I won't have a distribution as good at supporting it to turn to.  Of course, 
> we won't know anything about the final arrangements until roughly Spring 2011.
>
> As for SCO, I suspect that will be wrapped up about the time we have practical 
> flying cars.
We've had working flying cars for 50 years ;-)

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