[ale] Bad bad feeling here...

[Jim Kinney]

Any press release from RedHat or IBM on this will be very interesting. I
concur with your paranoia. This sale of "IP" is not a good thing.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> This may just be my innate over active paranoia kicking in but this just
> can not be good.  Not at all.
>
> Novell has agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, which is, in and of
> itself, not a bad thing (Novell needed to be picked up by someone).
>
> http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/11/novell_agrees_t_1.html
>
> The devil is in the details.  Attachmate gets and will run "Novell and
> SUSE" but...
>
> "Novell also said it has entered into an agreement for the concurrent
> sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a
> consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corp., for
> $450 million in cash..."
>
> Take the current Novell and subtract off Novell the brand (presuming
> Netware included) and SUSE and what's left (worth a cool $450 million in
> cash)?  The only things I can think of would be the Old UNIX licenses
> and properties, which were at the heart of the SCO litigation until
> Novell blew the wheels off from under SCO.  Where fore goes UnixWare.
>
> I've got a bad feeling this is not going to end well.  I may be wrong
> and I really REALLY hope I'm wrong, but I just gotta a baaad feeling
> Abbot (cue walking dead mummy).
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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