Novell to be Bought by Attachmate for 2.2 billion

[crustyasp46]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-1 ... llion.html

And who says Linux is free

[JAHGoVeg]

wow. lol where do you get this stuff from?

[crustyasp46]

I spend a lot of time searching the web, AND, I happen to get Linux newsletters, lol, which is where this came from!

[Guest]

Crusty, you mentioned about needing tips on what to block on....
I think you already know haha. You just make your own story on it from the link and your GOLDEN!

[Kherr]

block

By this I think he means BLOG.

[JAHGoVeg]

yeah, crusty you just basically paraphrase a story you found on the internet. Paraphrase means to tell a strory in your own words. then post a link to the original strory so people don't say you "stole" it from them. and YOU GOT YOURSELF A BLOCK!!! err i mean blog. lol.

[Guest]

Haha my bad. BLOG*

[JAHGoVeg]

The following is a response to Crusty's post about Novell

Novell is selling over 800 patents to Microsoft, but not their Unix copyrights.


It was finally Confirmed that, Yes, Novell owns unix. When Novell first announced that it was being bought by Attachmate for $2.2 billion, the question of who would retain ownership over Unix copyrights was an open issue.

Novell also revealed that it was selling 882 patents to a Microsoft-led technology consortium for $450 million. Potential ownership of Unix by the Microsoft-led group could have led to a new round of patent battles between Microsoft and the open source community. However, In a very closed-mouth statement Novell has now publicly stated that it will not be selling Unix as part of the patent sale.

"Novell will continue to own Novell’s UNIX copyrights following completion of the merger as a subsidiary of Attachmate,"

Novell has owned the Unix copyrights since 1993 when it acquired them from AT&T. Novell recently successfully defended its Unix ownership claim in a legal battle with SCO. Novell sold part of its interest in Unix to SCO back in 1995 and has been locked in a protracted legal battle with SCO since May of 2003 over ownership of Unix copyrights and patents. SCO has further alleged that Linux in some way infringes on the Unix copyrights and patents, which is why ownership of Unix has become a critical issue for the open source and Linux ecosystems.

Ownership over Unix isn't the only issue with the acquisition of Novell that has now been cleared up. Novell has been the lead sponsor of the openSUSE community Linux distribution since 2005 when it set up the community effort as a spinoff of the SUSE Pro Linux distribution.

The openSUSE project is an important part of the SUSE business. If this transaction closes, then after closing, Attachmate Corporation anticipates no change to the relationship between the SUSE business and the openSUSE project as a result of this transaction

Even with the issue of Unix and openSUSE now apparently solved, the Novell Attachmate deal is also potentially facing multiple challenges over the sale price. Multiple groups are now investigating potential class action lawsuits against Novell over all alleged breach of fiduciary duty. The investigations revolve around the issue of whether or not Novell's management got a bid that maximized shareholder value. Attachmate will be paying $6.10 per Novell share, while some analyst estimates had pegged Novell at a target value as high as $7.50.

[crustyasp46]

Unix copyrights to stay with Novell in merger


Novell today announced that it would continue to be the owner of its copyrights to Unix.
The news comes just two days after Novell announced plans to be acquired by Attachmate as part of a $2.2 billion deal that also involved the sale of some of the company's intellectual property being sold to the Microsoft-organized tech consortium CPTN Holdings.
"Novell will continue to own Novell's Unix copyrights following completion of the merger as a subsidiary of Attachmate," Novell's chief marketing officer, John Dragoon, said on the company's site earlier today.
What remains to be seen are the specifics of the 882 patents and other intellectual property that will go to the consortium as part of the deal. These will be listed in a merger filing that will be submitted to the SEC. A legal expert told CNET that filing could arrive within the next few weeks, but is more likely to take months given the inherent complexity of the deal.
Novell's ownership of the Unix copyrights were the center of a hard-fought legal battle with the SCO Group that began in 2004, and was decided earlier this year in favor of Novell.

[JAHGoVeg]

U DOG! I just posted here. about that. lol

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