<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> On 11/22/2010 06:57 PM, Basil Chupin wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4CEB035C.3030807@iinet.net.au" type="cite"> <h2 class="article-intro-text">As Microsoft-led consortium sweeps up 882 Novell patents.</h2> <div class="article-gallery-embed"> </div> <p>Microsoft's intellectual property vault has been bolstered with some 882 more software patents after open source vendor <a moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank" href="http://www.novell.com/home/">Novell</a> was acquired for US$2.2 billion (AU$2.2 billion) late yesterday.<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/239447,novell-sold-for-22-billion.aspx">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/239447,novell-sold-for-22-billion.aspx</a></blockquote> <br> I'm NOT surprised.....not surprised. openSUSE will not last long, IMHO. <br> <br> Fred<br> <br> </body> </html>