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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.174905.8558@sequent.com>
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec22.125718.5794@sequent.com> <1992Dec23.104125.29717@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:49:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.104125.29717@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
- >Paul Penrod (furballs@sequent.com) wrote:
- >: >And Novell is looking beyond Windows. In case you missed the Business
- >: >page from tomorrows Wall Street Journal, AT&T and Novell just announced
- >: >that they have signed a letter of intent for Novell to purchase
- >: >USL (UNIX Systems Laboratory). I.e., if the deal goes through (they
- >: >have board of director approval, but need government and USL stockholders
- >: >to agree) Novell will own UNIX, lock, stock, and copyright.
- >: >
- >
- >: Say it isn't so !!!
- >
- >: Well, there goes the neighborhood...
- >
- >'fraid it is true ... well almost ... novell are buying AT&Ts 75% share
- >of USL. of course the question is, why are AT&T selling? ... the
- >answer's simple ... people were complaining that one of the potential
- >players in the workstation market was controlling the operating system!
- >hence AT&T were selling before someone like the FTC investigated.
- >
-
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- I did a little bit of research yesterday morning on the newswire
- and confirmed the story from 2 other sources. I'd never thought I'd
- see the day when UNIX stands to be raped, pillaged and burned by
- the likes of Novell. If IBM or Microsoft bought it, they would at
- least leave the internals alone. Oh well, time to find a new OS...
-
- JMHO...
-
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