Novell agrees to be acquired by Attachmate.

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/23/2010 11:02 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I'm not sure how this will affect the Linux community at this time. No=
te
> Probably not at all.  It doubt that Microsoft even wants the UNIX paten=
ts, never mind that a strong Linux community is Microsoft's best defense =
against monopoly litigation.  I figure that it is the Netware copyright a=
nd patents that Microsoft is picking up.
>
I think that most of the patents referred to are as you state plus
possibly WordPerfect.

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