Comments on: What is Circumventing the Spirit of the GPL Worth? http://techrights.org/2006/12/25/what-is-circumventing-the-spirit-of-the-gpl-worth/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: shane http://techrights.org/2006/12/25/what-is-circumventing-the-spirit-of-the-gpl-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:41:59 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/25/what-is-circumventing-the-spirit-of-the-gpl-worth/#comment-175 Here was an interesting update on what it apparently was worth to Ron Hovsepian, in a slashdot comment by symbolset http://symbolset.blogspot.com/:

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214380&cid=17418140
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He received 778,470 shares of stock awarded 12/20/06. http://money.cnn.com/quote/insiders/insiders.html? symb=NOVL [cnn.com]

From this page you can see he’s historically not a big holder: http://money.cnn.com/quote/insiders/insiders.html? symb=NOVL&mode=person&pid=101687 [cnn.com]

778,470 @ $6.20 is $4,826,514. No doubt he was hoping for more presents under his tree. Perhaps there will be more for him after the dust settles. Certainly would have been nice for him if the Street had liked the deal and he got a good bump. Too bad.

It’s interesting that seven of ten managers listed here are new to the company in 2006, and almost all are new in the last 18 months: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NOVL [google.com]

If I were a stockholder looking at that, and the recent change of course in the company, I might be concerned. The theme is familiar, but I can’t remember where I saw it before… Maybe someone else will reply with that answer.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2006/12/25/what-is-circumventing-the-spirit-of-the-gpl-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:50:33 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/25/what-is-circumventing-the-spirit-of-the-gpl-worth/#comment-160 How about this article that had been published just before the deal was made?

Novell Hikes Execs’ Pay

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| Open source software maker Novell said last Friday its board approved
| the increase of its president and chief executive’s base salary to
| US$825,000 per year.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/53226.html

That link is now broken, but it was certainly live in September 25th, 2006.

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