Comments on: Novell’s Patents Are Complicating Its Sale

By: VM Who? Microsoft Lands Novell IP, Perhaps for the Cloud: Cloud «

VM Who? Microsoft Lands Novell IP, Perhaps for the Cloud: Cloud « — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:18:40 +0000

[...] a Microsoft-led consortium of technology companies. This could have major ramifications. As Matt Asay noted in September: Novell has a rich and varied patent portfolio that touches on everything from core networking [...]

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:40:52 +0000

If VMware was smart, after the purchase, they’d change the name from SUSE Linux Enterprise to Novell Enterprise Linux…

Yeah, right. They would be trading the good SUSE name for the terrible Novell one. That makes real sense.

By: dca

dca — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:55:25 +0000

If VMware was smart, after the purchase, they’d change the name from SUSE Linux Enterprise to Novell Enterprise Linux…

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:01:36 +0000

Mat,

You make the assumption that Novell’s patents are actually worth something. Based on my own investigations of patents held by a wide variety of tech firms, most patents are over valued. In fact 9 out of 10 patents is probably worthless.

I haven’t read the Novell patents yet. The 9 out of 10 being worthless is however what I’ve seen when reading patents by other tech companies, and I think that it is probably representative.

By: Gnstr

Gnstr — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:55:33 +0000

Thats a tricky one.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:40:04 +0000

DOS 6.3

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:27:37 +0000

“This is why Red Hat has remained interested in Novell”

[citation needed]