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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.
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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 $210m. Under Attachmate, the two were broken apart.
putting 882 patents in its Linux portfolio up for sale to a consortium backed by Microsoft.
SUSE is chief steward of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server while Novell has been re-shaped to sell end-point management and collaboration software.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 17 2014, @06:44PM
This has been covered here before.
China Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-killer Patents [soylentnews.org]
The AC's comment there gets very close to the mark: It's all about filesystems.
Specifically, M$ 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_