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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: 2) by cykros on Wednesday September 17 2014, @10:22PM
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...