Comments on: Is Novell a Prime Takeover Target? http://techrights.org/2007/05/01/is-novell-a-prime-takeover-target/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/05/01/is-novell-a-prime-takeover-target/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Roy Schestowitz Tue, 01 May 2007 23:39:33 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/01/is-novell-a-prime-takeover-target/#comment-573 Crazy speculations about a Microsoft takeover aside, <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/17/novell-the-eight-hundred-pound-penguin/" rel="nofollow">the following returns to mind</a>. <blockquote cite="http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/17/novell-the-eight-hundred-pound-penguin/"> Interestingly, according to Masie, after realizing that they couldn't open-source Netware, Novell apparently considered acquiring Red Hat at the time, as well as the possibility of forking Slackware before deciding to acquire Ximian, and subsequently SUSE. </blockquote> Crazy speculations about a Microsoft takeover aside, the following returns to mind.

Interestingly, according to Masie, after realizing that they couldn’t open-source Netware, Novell apparently considered acquiring Red Hat at the time, as well as the possibility of forking Slackware before deciding to acquire Ximian, and subsequently SUSE.

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