Microsoft's role in Novell-Attachmate deal?

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, November 25, 2010 12:55 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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...

It does not. Just saying that if there is anything to be concerned about 
for Fred it's the patents.


>
> 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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>

Them copyrights have zarro to do with Linux. Nor will they give them any 
teeth over Unix operating systems