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On 25/11/2010 15:25, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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Seattle-based Attachmate Corp. is buying Novell for $2.2 billion, the
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the "concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN
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<font face="DejaVu Serif">As always, Freddie boy, you are days behind <span
class="moz-smiley-s5"><span> :-D </span></span><br>
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BUT, how about these apples?<br>
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<h1>Attachmate to retain Novell Unix copyrights</h1>
<h2>Settling a rampage of rumors, Novell clarifies that Attachmate, not
Microsoft, will own Unix copyright<br>
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Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under
Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell
spokesman said Wednesday.
<p>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 <a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197724/Microsoft_led_group_to_pay_450M_for_882_Novell_patents"
target="_blank">being sold</a> to a Microsoft-led consortium, CPTN
Holdings, as part of the deal.</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/attachmate-retain-novell-unix-copyrights-058">http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/attachmate-retain-novell-unix-copyrights-058</a><br>
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BC<br>
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