AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

[Marcel Rieux]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net>wrote:

> On 22 March 2010 22:36, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Suse uses AppArmor without kernel integration and I'm not sure what
> support
> > they offer for the project. They bought AppArmor and later licensed
> > everybody except maybe 2 developers (not sure).
> >
> > Anyways, Novell is pretty much a living dead. Its Novell business is, of
> > course, dead and Suse still lives because it's on a live support line
> from
> > Microsoft.
>
> Do yourself a favour. Don't try to pass your opinions off as fact.
> Novell is very much alive.
>

I must confess that I'm not very strong on opinions; I'm better on facts.

2006. Microsoft sends a letter to Red Hat pretending that the Linux kernel
infringes 235 of their patents and that they'll have to pay royalties. Red
Hat answers: "Yeah, no problem! Send the patent list." Somehow, it seems
that Microsoft lost the list. Red Hat, who was eager to pay, never received
it.

Novell, on the other side, didn't ask for the list. They crawled to
Microsoft asking no question and signed. Of course, the deal wasn't that
bad.

"The deal involves upfront payment of $348 million from Microsoft to Novell
for patent cooperation and SLES subscription. Novell will pay around $40
million to Microsoft over 5 years."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Agreement_with_Microsoft

http://www.google.ca/search?q=novell+2006+%24348+million

In other words, Microsoft paid ~$148 million to drive a wedge into the Linux
community and Novell was glad to comply.

Here's the result:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=NOVL&annual

Now, the shares are gaining on an "offer" of a $2B buyout... which the
Novell board of course refused as way too low.

People usually have opinions to make up for their ignorance of facts.
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