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31st March 2009, 04:49 PM
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Linux beware: Microsoft acquires Novell, become UNIX copyright owner (April Fools)
URL : http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24164/1141/
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In a shock announcement, Microsoft has today taken majority ownership of software house Novell. This immediately gives the Redmond giant control of Novell's intellectual property assets including the legal copyright over UNIX. Already Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu) have expressed their expectation Microsoft will aggressively seek to eradicate all distributions save for Microsoft Linux Vista, formerly SUSE.
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(look at the date written)
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31st March 2009, 04:51 PM
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Hmm, I thought it was SCO who own Unix copyright?
Also.. BTW I hope people don't actually believe that 
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31st March 2009, 06:08 PM
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I like the date on the news article
today is 3-31-09 the post is Wednesday, 01 April 2009
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31st March 2009, 06:16 PM
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An early April's fool day joke, a good one indeed...
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31st March 2009, 07:01 PM
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An early April's fool day joke, a good one indeed...
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I read they are located in Australia so to them it isn't an early April Fool's joke, it's right on time.
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31st March 2009, 11:46 PM
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It would appear that Novel wasn't amused. This has been added to the story.
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Dear reader, the following is an April Fool story that Novell took seriously and asked us to retract (possibly because of the time difference between the US and Australia). We want to make clear that this story was intended to be for satitirical purposes only and has no basis in reality.
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1st April 2009, 02:39 AM
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In a shock announcement, Microsoft has today taken majority ownership of software house Novell.
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I always knew those Novell bastages couldn't be trusted!
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1st April 2009, 08:43 AM
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If Microsoft did indeed buy Novell, then Microsoft writing in codes into SVN or CVS to share with other distros.
Scary thoughts.
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1st April 2009, 08:50 AM
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Sco should offer to buy Novel i think
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1st April 2009, 10:32 AM
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SCO? Thought they already used their last leg(R.I.P.). McBride still kicking up a storm? :P
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1st April 2009, 10:52 AM
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me thinks Novel will go cheap enough for Sco to buy them out, they'll be able to claim they own Linux 
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1st April 2009, 01:46 PM
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So if something like this happened, wouldn't Linux users just switch to Solaris (which IBM would probably defend vehemently) or BSD?
So it may shake up the Linux community, and set them back a short time but ultimately not change that much. My biggest hope would be Red Hat could setting into a new position working on the other Unix (or their own..?? hmm....) kernel.
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1st April 2009, 01:48 PM
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me thinks Novel will go cheap enough for Sco to buy them out, they'll be able to claim they own Linux |
They already try. 
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1st April 2009, 02:25 PM
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Good thing GNU is Not Unix. 
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1st April 2009, 02:48 PM
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meh april fools joke or no joke, bottom line is novell has already sold its soul to microsoft(of 350+millon dollars)...it wouldn't make a difference if M$ buys out novell or not.
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Hmm, I thought it was SCO who own Unix copyright?
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no novell owns it, AT&T UNIX and all its derivatives( http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9030298)
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