Microsoft's role in Novell-Attachmate deal?

[Basil Chupin]

On 25/11/2010 15:45, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 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.
>    

You're a bit of a stirrer aren't you? :-) . I thought in one of your 
messages that nothing bothered you...

However, perhaps this may worry you and some others.....


  EU Parliament approves once-secret ACTA copyright treaty


    The vote is 331-294, with 11 abstentions, on the controversial
    Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement


http://www.infoworld.com/t/intellectual-property/eu-parliament-approves-once-secret-acta-copyright-treaty-007

BC

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