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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)."
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!
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
Novell sues Caldera for revealing Novell's hand in it.
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.
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.
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..."