Just to inject a much-needed note of reality here, if the management of Novell has filed an 8-K with the SEC saying that they don’t intend to sell the company, they don’t mean that they intend to sell part of the company, unless they want to find themselves doing a “perp walk”.

Misleading investors is a felony no-no under US Securities law, and I’m pretty confident that the SEC would view an explanation that “we didn’t say we wouldn’t split up and sell a chunk of the company, exactly” as having much merit. “Thinking about” selling all or part the company is a plan, Roy, and I wouldn’t assume that the authorities here have nearly the liking for word games that you seem to imagine they do. (It may have escaped your notice that, to give just one example, the SEC is considering whether Apple misled investors by being cagey about Steve Jobs’ health, and that’s a lot iffier than what you’re suggesting Novell is doing.)

These things are not hard to determine if you do a minimal amount–and I’m talking about ten seconds worth–of research. It’s not surprising, it’s just more evidence that you couldn’t care less about facts.