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Novell Buys Ximian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-cage-full-of-monkeys dept.

Quite a number of people have been submitting the news that Ximian has been purchased by Novell. All I've found so far is the press release linked to above; more links as they come in. Looks like Nat & Miguel will be remaining around, and Novell's continuing to expand its Open Source commitments. Update: 08/04 17:30 GMT by S : viewstyle writes "According to an interview with Ximian's CTO Miguel de Icaza at Eweek.com, Ximian won't be affected at all by Novell's buyout, and will be shipping a PowerPC version of Mono (preview release in Sept)."

6 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Aaaah! by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I ran "Red Carpet Update" this morning. Now I know why it downloaded a copy of the Book of Mormon to my computer. Thanks, Slashdot!

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  2. Re:Ximian has annoucment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I nominate the parent for the best first post ever.

  3. Re:It's all over for Ximian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Novell is actually a puppet corporation that was secretly taken over by Microsoft over 10 years ago. They only exist to give the illusion that Microsoft has competition in critical areas like spreadsheets and non-multitasking operating systems.

    Novell: Utah's answer to Corel.

  4. How to make money off of free software by MyRuger · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) Start a company

    2) Sell it

    Like teaching a new dog old tricks

  5. Re:Good News! by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Patience... just give them a little time to kill it.

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  6. Novell, don't make the same mistake again! by thepacketmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's just hope they don't turn around and sell Ximian to SCO!

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