Novell Sued Microsoft Through Caldera?

cheesedog writes "The intrigue increases: According to this article in the Salt Lake Tribune, the secret terms of the sale of DR-DOS to Caldera included the provision that Caldera would have to sue Microsoft (for Novell by proxy) over the OS and that they would have to do so without revealing Novell's hand in it. Did Novell indirectly create a monster? Caldera's 300 million winnings against Microsoft are now being used to fund lawsuits against Linux (and Novell)."

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Novell sued Microsoft through SCO

[AEton]

And the baby is Caldera's! And Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs are stuck in the well while their evil twins go about their daily lives!

Find out the exciting conclusion on the next episode of As the Slash Dots!

In related news...

[gid13]

Novell sues Caldera for revealing Novell's hand in it.

Cowboy Neal?

[dominick]

What the viewers at home really want to know is... how is CowboyNeal involved in this conspiracy?

It's sad. Laugh.

[AceJohnny]

I would laugh my ass off if this wasn't so sad. Can you believe that justice, through litigation, has become just another corporate weapon? Oh wait, we knew that already.

Nevertheless, the irony would be enough to kill a medium-sized vulcan town.

So I can be sued because.....

[3seas]

..... I'm and Open Source Developer using the GPL and contributing my work to Linux.... ... and teh rationality for being sue-able is because so and so unrelated companies are doing some circus act and majic tricks that have nothing to do with me and my work...

FreeSoftware will only become genuinely free when it becomes easy enough to create that most anyone, regardless of their limited resources (time, knowledge, etc.) can do it for themselves. And this is based upon the primary objective of programming, which is:

Programming is the act of automating complexity so as to make it easy to use and reuse that complexity by the user, regardless of who that user is. This act is a recursive act as shown in programming in any language above machine language, in that such language above machine language is itself an automation of complexity for creating further automations of complexity.

So.... does this mean teh world is going to be sued for reaching the ultimate programming objective and putting those with lessor intents out of business?

Hmmm.... And what if:

[Lukano]

We will soon discover that it was truly Microsoft funding Novell in a behind-closed-doors manner to create the deal with Canopy in order to hype up the media attention around unix/linux/bsd all in order to drive SCO/Canopy/Caldera into the ground. Novell's merger with Suse then becomes an easy way for Microsoft and Novell to take a larger chunk of the open source OS market away from the big players (read: Novell then scrapping Suse or giving it away to MS to play with in their sandbox) and become their own litle megalopoly.

Just spewing out semi-humorous consipracy theories, as all the twists and turns in these shenanigans are quite amusing.

No, you're safe

[Donny Smith]

You're safe for now because I believe most people can't figure out what it is that you're saying.

>Programming is the act of automating complexity ... creating further automations of complexity...

You've been fairly successful in encoding the ultimate compexity in your posting, therefore you're King of Complexity and Hero of Open Source!
Check your code for looping bugs, though!

Re:No, you're safe

[3seas]

Good example of an analogy for the arguement against the hindu-arabic decimal system in an effort to keep the roman numeral elite in business.

Like saying "how can nothing have value?" in suppression of the value of "zero".

there is no compound complexity as you suggest.

There is only defining a complexity so as to have an easier to use interface to its use.

Where the recursion is simply that of further creating complexity using the easier to use interfaces to parts you are including in the complexity you are now creating and automating to have its own easier to use interface....

But you know that the recursion of the concept is simple...but how many were fooled into thinking the value of "zero" couldn't be, simple because someone made it out to appear valueless, using abstractions called "words", to mislead?

Still, the point is: The ultimate goal of programming is that of making things easier to use..... but being sued for reaching that goal iss a contridiction to the goal.

For court does not make using automations easier at all but only injects FUD...

Re:Kinda like the U.S.

[Anonymous Coward]

You Sir are a genius: you manage to tie a totally offtopic US-Iraq-Al-Qaeda post to an article about Novell and SCO, and get modded "+5, Interesting".

A true Slashdot hero, yessiree...

Re:Novell found guilty

[sp0rk173]

I know this wasn't the intention, but the implications behind what you said is extremely funny..

"It's nice that you want to keep an open mind, but here's why you shouldn't."

Fuck idealism, right? I mean...we're talking about MICROSOFT here! Idealism only belongs in linux.

That being said, microsoft is poopy.

Re:Novell found guilty

[yintercept]

I can presume that some one is guilty all I want.

There are some restrictions on published media, which is why the word alleged is awkwardly inserted into media reports.

In some places the word alleged works quite well. For example "the alleged software development firm SCO..."