<p>I think that this is something to keep an eye on, for sure. I haven't had a chance to look into any of this more deeply, but I was really hoping that Novell would have freely released its UNIX holdings in the event of something like this. Of course, that was just a silly idealistic notion, wasn't it...</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 22, 2010 11:29 AM, "Michael H. Warfield" <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> This may just be my innate over active paranoia kicking in but this just<br>
> can not be good. Not at all.<br>> <br>> Novell has agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, which is, in and of<br>> itself, not a bad thing (Novell needed to be picked up by someone).<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/11/novell_agrees_t_1.html">http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/11/novell_agrees_t_1.html</a><br>
> <br>> The devil is in the details. Attachmate gets and will run "Novell and<br>> SUSE" but...<br>> <br>> "Novell also said it has entered into an agreement for the concurrent<br>> sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a<br>
> consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corp., for<br>> $450 million in cash..."<br>> <br>> Take the current Novell and subtract off Novell the brand (presuming<br>> Netware included) and SUSE and what's left (worth a cool $450 million in<br>
> cash)? The only things I can think of would be the Old UNIX licenses<br>> and properties, which were at the heart of the SCO litigation until<br>> Novell blew the wheels off from under SCO. Where fore goes UnixWare.<br>
> <br>> I've got a bad feeling this is not going to end well. I may be wrong<br>> and I really REALLY hope I'm wrong, but I just gotta a baaad feeling<br>> Abbot (cue walking dead mummy).<br>> <br>
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