Groklaw watcher: Novell got $240 million from MS for SUSE subscriptions and $108 million for patent something

[Alexander Terekhov]

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Novell got $240 million from MS for SUSE subscriptions and $108 million
for patent something

The Novell 8-K is up with some details about their sellout to MS.

Microsoft bought $240 million worth of SUSE subscriptions that they can
resell or shred or do whatever they want.

Novell got $108 million for something to do with patents, but will pay
Microsoft a total of at least $40 million over 5 years.

So Novell gets $348 million in the short term, and pays back $40 million
in the long term (assuming they're still in business).

Microsoft will spend millions marketing SUSE products.  It may be
interesting to see the quality of that marketing.  I suspect it will
vary with the quality of Microsoft's relationship with Novell.  I
predict the honeymoon will be over by Christmas.

I saw it first on Groklaw.
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regards,
alexander.