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.
It seems likely the end of Vista 10 coinciding with a sharp rise in memory prices (and now energy prices) will benefit GNU/Linux and therefore give us more to write about
MinceR says the "lkml [message/page] one is April Fools or at least they're trying to pass it off as April Fools [however] the [GitHub] one was archived on the 8th and yesterday, so that probably isn't..."
Like Scam Altman, Larry Ellison hangs around Cheeto King because he could use some bailouts in the form of government contracts or phony money with an incredible name like "Stargate"
When forums say that they banned Microsoft Lunduke or don't want him mentioned it's probably because they are familiar with the "stench" that follows him around
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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.