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Novell Sued Microsoft Through Caldera?

Posted by michael on from the puppeteer dept.

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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  1. Kinda like the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The US funds Saddam Hussein against war with Iran. Saddam and the US later go to war. (Twice.)

    The US funds the Afghans against the Russian army. The Afghans later turn all kooky and "kinda" go to war with the US.

    I think that this corporate thing just reaches to the roots of the problems in American society -- one person "helping" another by fuelling their hatred against a third party, only to have it backfire on them.

    1. Re:Kinda like the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And don't forget it was the CIA who trained Osama Bin Laden, too.

    2. Re:Kinda like the U.S. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think that this corporate thing just reaches to the roots of the problems in American society

      Oh come on. As if the entire concept of expedience was invented by Americans!?!? As if this sort of thing hadn't happened over and over and over again since the dawn of recorded human history? As if it isn't happening right now in the European Union? In the Arab world? All over Africa? At the local PTA?

      If you want to indulge in self-flagellation for human flaws, at least have the decency to do it in the name of the human race, instead of blaming it on America.

    3. Re:Kinda like the U.S. by Maudib · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I will just add a couple of examples. Lets start with the British East India company in India. They touinely hired Various Indian Princes to attack and eliminate rival princes, again and again. Each time pilfering the target, then attacking the attacker with another proxy and plundering him.

      All the major european countries issued letters of mark to independent vessels, licensing them to pirate other nations, while keeping their hands clean.

      Lets see, to keep things fair a good non-european example would probably be... shit. Ah got it. Shit, you know the Chinese and Japanese did this sort of shit all the time. Just cant think of any good non-european examples.

      DAMN YOU EURO CENTRIC HISTORY EDUCATION!

  2. Re:Novell found guilty by CaptainFrito · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "innocent until proven guilty" is missing one word in front of it and that word is "presumed".

    The overwhelming majority are innocent. Thus the presumption is based, not on some act of misplaced kindness that permits wealthy and influential to escape justice, but a simple acknowledgment of the true fact. Such injustice happens by other means. The presumption of innocence allows people to exist without be harrassed in the absence of reasonable evidence to the contrary.

    And you are flat wrong about the government, anyway. The government prosecutes as a direct result of their presumption of guilt based on its unproven evidence. The Law, and not the government, presumes innocence. It is always a scary thing when people confuse government with law, even scarier when they equate the two.

    But perhaps most frightening of all is when poeple confuse law with morality and uprightness. These are independent concepts, and as with intergalactic comets, only rarely do they meet each other.