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Everyone was told, no-one listened

Just weeks after Novell 'sold out' to Microsoft, I made a prediction on the Novell Forums that the deal signified the end of Novell. I was laughed at by the so-called, self-appointed 'Gurus' who run the Forums.

So far the only company ever to survive a "co-operation" with Microsoft is SAP and you can bet that deep underground somewhere in Microsoft's 'Area 51' programmers are working on a product to replace SAP so they can control that as well. Every company that have "done a deal" with Microsoft has either been swallowed up or bankrupted. Microft will only be happy when they have total control of the computer industry.

What of the 822 Petents that Microsoft now own? Well might you ask. Let me make yet another 'prophecy'.

Microsoft will wait for (what they consider) a respectable time and then suddenly cherry-picked ex-Novell patents will suddenly start to appear in new releases / updates of Windows, other patents which may well still be embarrassing for Microsoft, will vanish and anyone trying to use them will feel the full weight of the massive Microsoft anti-competition lawsuits.

This should be a wake-up call for the other companies who have "done deals" or are thinking about doing deals with Microsoft. This is a great way for a company to commit suicide!

 

 

Microsoft buys up 882 Novell patents

Microsoft buys up 882 Novell patents

Consortium organised by Microsoft gains control of Novell intellectual property

By Chris Kanaracus and Joab Jackson
Published: 12:30 GMT, 23 November 10

CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organised by Microsoft, is purchasing 882 Novell patents for $450 million cash, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted Monday by Novell.

The deal is part of the Attachmate acquisition of Novell, also announced Monday, and expected to close in the first quarter of next year. In the original announcement, Novell stated only that CPTN would acquire "certain intellectual property assets." In a Form 8-K filing with the SEC, Novell stated that in the patent purchase agreement "Novell will sell to CPTN all of Novell's right, title and interest in 882 patents... for $450 million in cash."

A quick look through the US Patent Office database finds 461 patents that listed Novell under the assignee name.

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Microsoft declined to comment beyond sending out a statement from the company's general counsel. "We are pleased to be a part of the acquisition of certain intellectual property assets of Novell. Microsoft looks forward to continuing our collaboration with Novell into the future, to bring mixed source IT solutions to customers," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel.

It was not clear Monday which other technology companies are involved with CPTN Holdings. A limited liability corporation of that name was formed in Delaware on Nov. 4, according to a search of the state's website, but few other details were immediately available. A similar search on the website of Microsoft's home state of Washington turned up no results.

Also not clear is Microsoft's interest in these patents. In 2004, Novell hit Microsoft with an antitrust lawsuit, alleging that Microsoft tried to squelch competition in the office-productivity-applications market during the time that Novell owned WordPerfect, which is now owned by Corel.

The patents that would be acquired by CPTN in Attachmate's purchase of Novell probably wouldn't have that much bearing on the antitrust case, though, noted Charles King, Pund-IT's president and principal analyst of the Pund-IT analysis firm.

 

Novell has gone rogue!

Why Novell Has Gone Rogue (and is Better off Eliminated)

Summary: A look back at 3.5 years of Microsoft-influenced Novell

“Would it be possible to have some retrospectives to show the harm Novell is doing and how their behavior is worse now?”  

That’s a request just sent by a reader who added, “In the SCO v Novell fight, neither side are the good guys.”

Here in a nutshell is how Novell has been hurting software freedom in recent years. It’s a concise explanation with all references omitted for the sake of simplicity.

Novell is a proprietary software company (the vast majority of its business) and a software patents proponent which takes pride in its number of software patents. Novell did not oppose software patents in Europe and when it signed a patent deal with Microsoft it essentially ignited a flurry of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), directed squarely not necessarily at end users who were outraged but was instead targetting companies like TomTom, HTC, and Amazon — companies that happen to have Linux inside their products/services. This new wave of patent claims was the SCO equivalent which relied on patent law rather than copyright law. In neither case was any evidence presented. To make matters worse, Novell used Microsoft’s patent offensives (patent lawsuits and other attacks) to market its own products, notably the “SUSE Linux Enterprise” product line.

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