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- From: bheagney@amiganet.chi.il.us (Brian Heagney)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Novell-Uh Oh!
- References: <bheagney.0mlh@amiganet.chi.il.us>
- Message-ID: <bheagney.0mue@amiganet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:53:04 CST
- Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems
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- In article <bheagney.0mlh@amiganet.chi.il.us>, bheagney@amiganet.chi.il.us
- (Brian Heagney) writes:
- >Has anyone out there, besides myself read the story about Roger Billings and
- >the Novell phenomena? If any of you would like to read the story, it is in
- the
- >December 14 issue of Information Week. It is interesting, a MUST READ!
- >
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- I am sorry, but I failed to mention the content of this elaborate story. The
- following is just a jist of what I understand the article is talking about:
-
- Way way back before Novell got started there were four students and a
- professor. Supposedly this is when the idea of the protocols and definition of
- routines was discussed in an University openly. Supposedly three students went
- off and worked on the company to develop what is now NOVELL, and Roger Billings
- another student supposedly went off and did his little thing. He managed to
- apply for patents and was refused because ??? - and at the same time the three
- students that are now at NOVELL working were working on supposedly the same
- information. Well as it sounds, it appeared that Roger Billings got a patent
- on the same stuff Novell was working on and then Novell got a patent supposedly
- or something. Now, Roger is suing Novell for the infringement, etc. For a
- complete story of this please read the article, much more clear. The lawyers
- do say that Roger has a good case and might win, but the outcome - corporate
- shutdown, buyout, ???
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