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SuSE Linux has a New Owner

posted by janrinok on Wednesday September 17 2014, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the payware dept.

gewg_ writes:

El Reg reports

Attachmate, the software shop that headhunted Novell and SUSE Linux, is itself being bought out by Micro Focus International.

The mainframe and COBOL specialist is acquiring Attachmate Group from its parent company Wizard in a deal calculated at $2.3bn before costs.

[...]

Attachmate gives MicroFocus access to SUSE and Novell, business units bought by the company in 2010 for $2.2bn. Novell owned SUSE Linux, which it had bought in 2003 for $210m. Under Attachmate, the two were broken apart.

putting 882 patents in its Linux portfolio up for sale to a consortium backed by Microsoft.

SUSE is chief steward of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server while Novell has been re-shaped to sell end-point management and collaboration software.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 17 2014, @03:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 17 2014, @03:46PM (#94589)

    I don't like the sound of that... M$ already makes more money off Android than windoze phoney. http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-most-profitable-mobile-operating-system-android-7000015094/ [zdnet.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 17 2014, @06:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 17 2014, @06:44PM (#94654)

    This has been covered here before.
    China Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-killer Patents [soylentnews.org]
    The AC's comment there gets very close to the mark: It's all about filesystems.
    Specifically, M$ got exFAT written into the SD Card spec, so everyone who uses those pays an M$ Tax.
    (All the other "Android" patents claimed by M$ to apply have been shown to be generic and bogus.)

    The comment by physicsmajor [soylentnews.org] and the one by me [soylentnews.org] are highly applicable.

    ...and if M$'s OS supported filesystems other than their own 4th-rate stuff and did so out of the box, this wouldn't be an issue at all.

    -- gewg_

  • (Score: 2) by cykros on Wednesday September 17 2014, @10:22PM

    by cykros (989) on Wednesday September 17 2014, @10:22PM (#94703)

    You don't like that Microsoft is seeing direct financial incentive to put more resources into free software than their proprietary software?

    What exactly isn't to like? If only it happened more often that free software showed direct financial incentives like this, perhaps we'd have moved out of the proprietary dark ages long ago...