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- From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 06:34:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- From article <2B360E6C.369@news.service.uci.edu>, by mwu@orion.oac.uci.edu (Matt Wu):
- >
- > I just heard that Novell bought USL. What does this mean?
-
- What does it mean?
-
- There is an active patent infringement lawsuit against Novell claiming
- that Novell NetWare infringes this client-server patent. According to
- what I've read, the patent's claims are _very_ broad, and some legal
- experts think that if this goes to trial, the patent holder (an
- independent engineer, _not_ another corporate behemouth) may well win.
- If that happens, what is Novell to do, what with their major (only?)
- product found to infringe a valid patent? The patent holder would be
- well within his rights to demand Novell cease and desist from
- developing, vending, and/or deploying Netware in this case, _and_
- demand compensation from Novell, and from the _users_ of the infringing
- product. (The suit also names Bank of America, a _major_ Novell
- customer.)
-
- So, maybe Novell is "broadening it's product line"? :-)
-
- Just a thought.
-
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