Novell

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financial

Novell Gets $2 Billion Takeover Offer From Elliott

From BusinessWeek: Novell Inc., a seller of network software whose stock has slid 85 percent in the past decade, received an unsolicited takeover bid from shareholder Elliott Associates LP that values the company at about $2 billion. Novell’s shares jumped as much as 37 percent to $6.51 in

community

Panel: Measuring Community Contributions (Liveblog)

Panelists: Joe Brockmeier - OpenSUSE Jono Bacon - Ubuntu James Bottomley - Novell Dan Frye - IBM Karsten Wade - Fedora * Don't always associated "contribution" with "code". * People tend to contribute things that are of value to them - they are scratching their own

Novell

Tech Vendors That May Not Survive 2009

We all know that the global economy is not doing well right now.  Very few days go by without some bad news hitting the wire.  This article (if it can be called an "article"... it's more of a flash presentation) may be a signal that we&

IBM

Judge Kimball Rules on SCO v. Novell

It looks like Judge Kimball has finally issued a ruling on SCO v. Novell.  From the article: OK. I've read it now once through, and the big picture is this: Judge Kimball did not change anything in his August 10th order, which I was afraid might happen. He

Linux

Red Hat: BofA Downgrades; Cites Troubles With JBoss

(via Matt) Following news that Novell may be building momentum comes news that Bank of America has downgraded RHT.  As is often the case with stock analysts, more are piling on the downgrade now.  From Barrons: Red Hat (RHT) shares are lower today after Bank of America analyst Kirk Materne

Linux

Some Novell Momentum

It looks like Novell might be quietly building up some momentum.  First came news that Office Depot is consolidating onto the SLES platform: In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. In

Microsoft

Patent Firm Acacia Loses Case Against Microsoft; More To Come?

It looks like Acacia, who recent filed a suit against Red Hat and Novell, just lost its first court battle.  From a paidContent article: The notorious patent holding company Acacia Research, which first came to light in the digital media industry for claiming broad patents in the streaming media field,

Linux

Devices Lacking Linux Support Needed

Greg KH recently announced that Novell was letting him work on the Linux Driver Project full time.  The response was huge, with over 300 developers answering the call.  Lack of Linux drivers is usually pretty high up on the list of Linux shortcomings.  But a follow up post by Greg

Novell

Acacia's Latest Target: NetFlix

It's not just Red Hat and Novell.  From TechDirt Acacia has become one of the most hated firms by technology companies that actually do stuff. That's because Acacia is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) firms out there in the business of buying up

Microsoft

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell III

(coverage continues) Via 451 CAOS Theory: It looks like the Acacia lawsuit may indeed have little to do with Open Source and be just another general patent troll case.  From the article: The nation's first Linux patent suit currently facing Red Hat and Novell isn't about

Apple

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell II

(A follow up to previous coverage) As you may have guessed, this topic is being discussed heavily around the web.  Mark Radcliffe points out that Open Source companies are likely becoming a more tempting target to patent trolls due to the stunning growth in the sector (keep in mind that

Apple

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell

Earlier this month, Ballmer reiterated his stance on patents and Linux: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property. "People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a

Linux

Microsoft kills its 'Get the Facts' anti-Linux site

A little late on this one, but Microsoft has replaced its Get the Facts site with one that is ostensibly less biased. "The goal of the site is to offer more in-depth information and customer-to-customer opinions about many of the issues IT administrators face," a company spokeswoman said.

IBM

Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights

It sure has been a long time since the last SCO related post.  It looks to finally be the beginning of the end for this whole fiasco.  From Groklaw: Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO

Linux

Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad

From Ars: ThinkPad customers will soon have a new configuration option, as Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled. Although the ThinkPad has been certified for Linux for some time, this marks the first time Lenovo will

FSF

Microsoft Statement About GPLv3 II

To answer a question I posed in a previous post about how Novell was going to handle the fact that Microsoft does not want to be a party to the GPLv3 (from the Novell PR Blog): Shortly after the GPLv3 license was released, Microsoft issued a statement in which they

GPLv3

Microsoft Statement About GPLv3

A quick follow up on my previous GPLv3 coverage.  Here's the official Microsoft statement: Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 license and none of its actions are to be misinterpreted as accepting status as a contracting party of GPLv3 or assuming any legal obligations under such

Linux

Red Hat CEO Says He Talked Patents with Microsoft II

A quick follow up on this post based on some questions/comments that I got via email.  First, no - I absolutely don't think Red Hat is currently in discussion with Microsoft to sign a Novell-style patent deal.  Note the bolding.  They may very well be in some

Linux

More Microsoft Patent Dealings

So, Linspire is the latest company to sign a patent deal with Microsoft.  They've even managed to wrangle some additional items they claim are not in the other deals: Linspire Inc. has announced an agreement to license voice-enabled instant messaging, Windows Media 10 CODECs, and TrueType font technologies

Linux

Xandros signs up with Microsoft

It looks like Xandros has signed a deal similar to the recent Microsoft Novell one.  From the press release: Today Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Linux platform provider Xandros Inc announced a broad collaboration agreement based on a set of technical, business, marketing and intellectual property commitments. These commitments provide

Linux

Novell Goes Public with MS Patent Agreement Documents

After a delay due to a stock option investigation, Novell has just filed its 10K.  The filing includes, as attachments, documents from the recent Microsoft deal: The text of the 144-page 10-K filing does not get into the specifics of the Microsoft deal, but it does include, subject to some

Novell

Novell, EFF Announce Patent Reform Partnership

We were all quick to deride Novell when we perceived they did something that was not in the best interest of the community.  I think it's only fair that we point out when they do something that should be perceived as good for the community.  I think they

Linux

Second Day OSBC Wrap up

The OSBC is now officially over and here's my second day wrap up.  The opening keynote consisted of Rob Curley, Marten Mickos and Lee Thompson.  I had never seen Rob speak before, but he is extremely entertaining and had some very good information.  He maintained that what him

Linux

"Is the Novell-Microsoft deal good for open source?" panel question

I'll post a full overview of OSBC day two later, but the "Is the Novell-Microsoft deal good for open source?" panel went over time and I didn't have a chance to ask the question I had.  From the panel, Justin from Novell indicated that

FSF

Closing notes on the first day of OSBC

Overall I have to say I've really enjoyed the first day of OSBC.  I'm getting an entirely different perspective on many things, which is good.  It's easy to get a bit insular when you are only exposed to a single side of an argument.