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 ;-)
-- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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