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Attachmate To Retain Novell Unix Copyrights

Posted by samzenpus on from the mine-now-I-keep-it dept.

angry tapir writes "Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman has revealed. The confirmation, which came in a terse message posted to Novell's website, seems to rule out questions of whether Unix assets are part of some 882 patents being sold to a Microsoft-led consortium, CPTN Holdings, as part of the deal."

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  1. Re:Mono Framework by noidentity · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am wondering what happens to Mono?

    I don't know; are you?

  2. Re:why should BSD care? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your arguments are logical, well-thought-out, and eminently fair.

    Which is why they would be utterly irrelevant to Microsoft.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
  3. Re:We gotta buy them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not as funny as farting when the TSA fingers your asshole.

  4. Re:We gotta buy them. by Jaxoreth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, OldSCO was pretty cool, if a little pricey. Caldera Linux, after purchasing the name and UNIX business was a bunch of pricks.

    While the Santa Cruz Operation had a legitimate business, SCO UNIX was the most painful operating system I've ever had to use or administer. Out of the box, hitting Delete would backspace over the prompt. Even DOS didn't do that.

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    In general, it is safe and legal to kill your children. -- POSIX Programmer's Guide