Microsoft's role in Novell-Attachmate deal?

[Basil Chupin]

On 25/11/2010 15:25, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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> What's Microsoft's role in the Novell-Attachmate deal? 
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> Seattle-based Attachmate Corp. is buying Novell for $2.2 billion, the 
> companies announced on November 22. At the same time, Novell announced 
> the "concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN 
> Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by 
> Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash."
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As always, Freddie boy, you are days behind :-D

BUT, how about these apples?


  Attachmate to retain Novell Unix copyrights


    Settling a rampage of rumors, Novell clarifies that Attachmate, not
    Microsoft, will own Unix copyright

Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under 
Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell 
spokesman said Wednesday.

The confirmation, which came in a terse message posted to Novell's 
website, seems to rule out questions of whether Unix assets are part of 
some 882 patents being sold 
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197724/Microsoft_led_group_to_pay_450M_for_882_Novell_patents> 
to a Microsoft-led consortium, CPTN Holdings, as part of the deal.



http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/attachmate-retain-novell-unix-copyrights-058

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