Novell has announced the company's sale to Attachmate for $6.10/share. More ominously: "Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation." Information on what the "certain intellectual property assets" are is scarce at the moment.
Reference: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/109868319.html http://lwn.net/Articles/416567/rss That is right, Micro$oft has bought part of a Linux company. Before the celebration begins, It sounds like the worst could have happened. It is not yet determined what M$ purchased but wouldn't make sense if they purchased rights to UNIX, which was finally determined to be owned by Novell. I have suggested the purchase Novell for Unix by M$ for sometime now on the list. As many of you can guess, -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
