Microsoft's role in Novell-Attachmate deal?

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, November 25, 2010 12:42 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

> As always, Freddie boy, you are days behind :-D
>
> BUT, how about these apples?
>
> 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
>

Who cares about the copyrights? Them patents are what we should be 
concerned about.