Evidently the appeal by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to the Justice Department to look closer at Novell’s deal to sell its patents to the CPTN brotherhood of Microsoft-Apple-Oracle-EMC as part of its $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate has worked. Both Novell and CPTN Holdings got a second request [...]
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That scare-the-open-source-community-to-death Microsoft-Apple-Oracle-EMC consortium that’s supposed to buy 882 unknown Novell patents for $450 million cash as an “it-can’t-happen-without-it” part of Novell’s pending $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate, withdrew its unstamped joint venture permission slip with the German antitrust authorities on December 30 according to an amended citation on the Bundeskartellamt’s web site. The terse, [...]
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Gotta love red tape. The mysterious Microsoft-organized consortium otherwise known as CPTN Holdings LLC that bought 882 of Novell’s patents for $450 million cash so Novell could sell out to Attachmate Corporation for another $1.75 billion registered with the German antitrust authorities on December 9 and there on the Bundeskartellamt’s web site for all the [...]
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Novell, which has been on the block for months, said Monday morning that it’s selling out to Attachmate Corporation for $6.10 a share, or roughly $2.2 billion in cash. At the same time Novell said it’s also selling certain unidentified intellectual property to a thing called CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of equally unidentified technology [...]
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It’s unlikely that anybody in the industry needs three anonymous Reuters sources to tell them that NetWare has been the stubborn donkey on the bridge holding up the sale of Novell for lo the six months the company’s been in play. Everybody has known for years and years that that thing has been an albatross [...]
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It’s an utter rout. Linux is apparently saved whether it deserves to be or not. SCO Thursday lost its bid to get the jury verdict awarding Novell the Unix copyrights overturned along with its bid to get the copyrights despite the jury decision. It also lost its right to sue IBM for copying Unix code [...]
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SCO has one foot in the grave, but the sod hasn’t been thrown over it yet. With its copyright and slander-of-title case lost to Novell, it says it still means to bring its suspended contract and unfair competition case against IBM if the judge who presided over the Novell case – and who may have [...]
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Novell’s gone awfully quiet since last week when Elliott Associates, a New York hedge fund better known for trafficking in Peruvian debt, offered $5.75 a share to take in private. In fact, the only peep out of it has been the constant rustle of its stock trading hands apparently in anticipation of either a sweetened [...]
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Don’t you think it’s odd that a hedge fund with little experience to speak of in technology suddenly out of the blue makes a $2 billion bid to take Novell private – Novell, one of techland’s more screwed-up, unfixable brews – it even defeated Eric Schmidt, who’s supposed to be oh so smart, ah, but [...]
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Novell Asks Appeals Court To Reverse its Decision on SCO Novell Tuesday asked the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc its decision overturning the Utah summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell and sending SCO’s suit against Novell back to Utah for trial. En banc would mean all of the God [...]
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