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Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell

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On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:57:23 -0700
Rob <meer5tt@privacy.net> wrote:

> Novell appealed Motz's ruling to the 10th Circuit but the court affirmed
> Motz's ruling, finding that Microsoft was under no obligation to share
> sensitive information with a competitor.
> 
> The case is Novell v. Microsoft, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 13-1042.
> (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Additional reporting by Andrew Longstreth;
> Editing by Howard Goller and Alden Bentley)

The Register has a hilarious take on it too.  Still, imagine what the
world would be like if Novell had won?  Billions of dollars in
settlement?  On a lark, I downloaded and installed WordPerfect late
last year - a free trial, or something.  I really disliked it.  I
really detest Microsoft Word, and the ribbon makes me manic.  I think
O365 is utter crapola.  But amazingly and to my surprise, I was not
tempted to try to get to know WordPerfect instead.  Forget the $300
price tag (or whatever; it was expensive and that price is about
right).  I found the menus disorienting, the functionality out of date,
and the software surprisingly not useful.  

Actually, now that I think about it: imagine with all that new cash,
Novell decides to buy SUSE Linux again.  I'd slit my wrists - spinning
off SUSE to Attachmate is one of the best things that happened to my
favorite Linux distro in the 21st century.  It really kind of stagnated
under Novell.  So thank $DEITY Novell was denied that pile-o-cash.

//--snip
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/28/victory_for_microsoft_as_supremes_decline_to_hear_novells_wordperfect_whine/

Victory for Microsoft as Supremes decline to hear Novell's WordPerfect
whine The Windows 95 case that wouldn't die is finally snuffed out
By Iain Thomson, 28 Apr 2014  

The decade-long legal fight over the reasons WordPerfect failed has
ended in victory for Microsoft after the US Supreme Court declined to
hear Novell's appeal and shut the door on a potential billion-dollar
settlement for the company. 
//--snip

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Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Rob <meer5tt@privacy.net> - 2014-04-29 04:57 -0700
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-29 17:14 +0000
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-29 12:23 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-04-29 13:28 -0500
      Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-11-10 04:22 +0000
        Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 21:32 -0700
        Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-11-10 08:11 -0600
  Google has done what Novell couldn't.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-29 13:53 -0700
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell K Wills <compuelf@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 04:08 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-30 12:14 +0100
      Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-04-30 12:17 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-30 07:01 -0500

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