Potentially boosted by some, false information, Novell gets a little lift.

Shares of Novell Inc. ticked up at the opening bell Thursday after the software platforms developer said it is making progress in its move to products based on Linux.

It does not last long, however, as Richard Stallman unleashes the truth (more on that shortly, probably in the next post).

The Free Software Foundation will publish the last call draft of the third revision of its General Public License (GPLv3) today and has retained sufficient bite in it to penalise Microsoft.

Novell will of course be affected by this as well, so it's to rethink. One analyst has just assigned the most negatives of ratings to NOVL.

Novell (NOVL)

Reiterates 1 STARS (strong sell)

Analyst: Jim Yin