“The software maker’s response was to an earlier report from PC World that the consortium, called CPTN Holdings and formed by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC, had withdrawn its plan to buy more than 880 Novell patents for $450 million,” Gonsalves reports. “The Novell patents became available when the company agreed last November to be purchased by Attachmate for $2.2 billion. The transaction included sale of the patents to CPTN. Novell at the said it expected the sale of the company to be completed in the first quarter of this year.”
Full article here.
Does this relate in anyway with Android and it’s kernel…
Nah, Android’s kernel is about to be popped.
@ Davegan: “Does this relate in anyway with Android and it’s kernel”
Probably.
The irony here is that Linux was created to get around all the legal issues BSD Unix was facing back in the day.