[ale] Bad bad feeling here...

[Jim Kinney]

So UNIX copyrights go _with_ Novell and become de facto property of
Attachmate is what I read of this.

That is FAR better than the other "investment group" acquiring those
copyrights.

So what did Novell sell to CPTN Holdings? M. De Icaza? </snark>

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I believe in response to thoughts like yours, Novell put a press
> release that says:
>
> "Novell will continue to own Novell’s UNIX copyrights following
> completion of the merger as a subsidiary of Attachmate."
>
> http://www.novell.com/company/ir/message.html
>
> But that is basically all it says, so it is impossible to know what is
> going on.
>
> Greg
>
> 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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