Novell takeover rumours...

Well, that buyer wasn't on the list...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/22/attachmate_eats_novell/

 

**** I hope not.
I've had my legs crossed that Oracle moved on over.

 

Bit late for hope. It's all agreed.
http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-
attachmate-corporation

Wonder what the "unspecified IP" they're flogging to MS is?

 

*wail*

 

Something begining with U and ending in X, I reckon.

 

That's not even funny

From the article footnote :

"Wouldn't it be funny if Microsoft ended up owning whatever rights to
Unix that Novell thinks it has?"

Paul.

 

I think that groklaw is going into meltdown over this ;-)

<http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101122130625952>

 

You should.

If there really ARE Unix patents involved, at the very least the entire
industry's got years of long and expensive and time-consuming FUD &
litigation ahead of it.

At the worst, there's potential for a really horrible monopoly situation,
with the wallet-raping and stifling of innovation that tends to entail.

 

But why should I actually GAF?

But why should I actually GAF?

 

Your home router will cost more.

 

Well, I s'pose if you don't actually plan to buy any more domestic tech
in the next decade or so...

Oh, wait.

All the companies you DO buy stuff off will likely face stiff rises in
their internal IT costs and reductions in future gains in efficiency.
Mmm.

Make that "Well, I s'pose if you plan to live in a cave for the next
decade".

 

What - the "free" one I got from BT?

 

Free? No such thing, old son.

 

I bought a new laptop earlier this year. The previous one was 7 years
old.

The new one cost 30% of the old one, for a better spec. If the cost of
my next laptop is a lot more than my current one, then I'll either
swallow the cost or replace it with something 2nd hand.

I really can't see why I need to GAF about Novell being taken over.

 

That's why I put it in qoutes. I know that I pay for it through the
monthly cost, but I really can't see that the increased cost of a
router in the future is going to be a major issue for me.

 

I'm really not prepared to go into MS bashing not Linux advicacy in this
group. Anyway, there's a lot of knee-jerk panicing going on at the
moment.

To surmise: it could be harmless or Microsoft could use their deep pockets
and go into murder, death kill mode.

There are too few facts around at the moment to even guess reliably.

 

Because Novell were actively trying to use those patents as the basis for
their own Unix-based products, competing with...

 

<reaches for tinfoil helmet>
Have you heard of a company called Cyberdyne Systems and their product
Skynet?

 

I'm guessing because Novell actually owned the patents SCO thought
they could kill linux and sue everyone else with.

Anyway, it's no bad thing, even if the OS market were to reduce to
Windows, Solaris and AIX then there would be tons of migration
projects in the future, and millions of apps that need redeveloping.

Anyone with a suitable technical background could probably go
contracting and make a small fortune, and the IT industry would be
like the good old days again.

Hooray.

 

ITYM "Unix".

Knock Solaris & AIX out if Unix is "killed". And, of course, on the
desktop OS X would have to go for a burton, together with Android & iOS,
on mobile handsets. And - of course - all those embedded devices.