Novell, Inc. will issue a press release providing an overview of financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2007 on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 4pm ET.
Until then, Novell financial health will remain somewhat of an enigma.
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gpl1
2007-05-03 00:44:57
Does this mean we'll all finally get to see the terms of the MS-Novell deal? I'd love to see what convinced the FSF lawyers that MS is distributing Linux and therefore bound by it somehow...
Ok, back to questions from me. People like the ‘Boycott Novell’ site say things like: “Microvell, give us the details. Until Novell makes the details of their patent covenant public, they cannot and will not be trusted nor fully embraced by the Free Software community.” Will you ever ‘give them the details’?”
[Steinman:] We are a public company. We will publish the details of the Novell and MS agreement. However we are currently undergoing a voluntary stock option review as we have made very public. We are one of 500 American Tech Companies doing the same thing right now. Until we finish that, we cannot legally by US SEC regulations publish any material data about our business transactions. The Novell and MS agreement is considered material data. Once we are finished with the voluntary review, we will publish the details of the Novell/MS agreement, as legally required by the SEC.
So, perhaps we will finally learn precisely which "open source software shipped under the agreement" that Novell agreed to pay MS a royalty on in exchange for a promise not to enforce their IP rights, and how much.
Having been involved in the WordPress development community since almost the beginning, I know why it chose the GPL and how it restricts abuse by Automattic
This site has over 1,000 'wiki' pages, many thousands of documents, several thousands of videos, and about 50,000 blog posts or articles. We need to make them easier to find/navigate.
Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.
The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.
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gpl1
2007-05-03 00:44:57
shane
2007-05-03 02:52:09
So, perhaps we will finally learn precisely which "open source software shipped under the agreement" that Novell agreed to pay MS a royalty on in exchange for a promise not to enforce their IP rights, and how much.