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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sells USL to Novell
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <1992Dec22.082727.26990@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:42:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.082727.26990@freenet.carleton.ca> aa393@Freenet.carleton.ca (Ramesh Fernando) writes:
- > I wrote Doug DeJulio about this, I just wonder how organizations
- >who are boycotting USL over there suit vs UC Berkeley are going
- >to do against Novell the new parent company.
-
- It remains to be seen if Novell will keep that suit... I think there
- is a real chance that they will drop it. It's a braindamaged suit to
- begin with (probably unwinable), and Novell has more to gain by making
- friends out of the Unix industry as a whole.
-
- > The other interesting thing is if Apple merges with Novell/USL
- >we will have 2 companies merging with Novell being in the middle, who
- >prefer legal action over product development and who probably have
- >bigger legal departments for there look and feel beliefs instead of
- >investing in R&D
-
- What's with this persistence of the Novell/Apple merger rumor? It was
- a rumor, nothing more. Novell's (intended) purchase of USL shows
- where Novell is trying to go, and it isn't "the Macintosh Way." Look
- instead for a merger with Borland or Quarterdeck in the next year or so.
-
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