Novell's Microsoft patent sale referred to regulators

[Basil Chupin]

Open sourcers have asked German authorities to probe a Microsoft-backed 
purchase of hundreds of patents owned by Novell as part of that 
company's purchase by Attachmate 
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/22/attachmate_eats_novell/>.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has written to the German Federal 
Cartel Office saying that the purchase of 882 patents for $450m by 
never-heard-of-before CPTN Holdings "represents a potentially new, and 
unprecedented threat against open source software."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/03/osi_protests_cptn_germany/

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