Microsoft Pays $536M to Novell

_mArk writes "This morning Novell announced that it had settled a potential law suit with Microsoft related to its NetWare product line. Microsoft agreed to pay $536 million to Novell, but this is not the end as there is another litigation against them pertaining to WordPerfect."

easy handout

[Sv-Manowar]

perhaps SCO went after the wrong people ?

You realize what this means for Microsoft?

[burgburgburg]

$536 Million?
No new boxes of tissue until Tuesday!

Oh, the nasal anguish!

It's Slashdot Novell Day!

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet the sysadmin is having a case of the Mondays.

Re:easy handout

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget to pay your $536,000,000 licensing fee, you cock-smoking teabaggers!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re:Sue sue sue, it's the American way!

[grasshoppa]

No, wait, I thought we liked Novelle now.

Damn it, did I miss a meeting again?

Now they can claim funding

[bblazer]

Paying off these lawsuits is just the cost of doing business for MS. But given their perversion of reality, I wouldn't be surprised if I soon see Balmer giving one of his heart attack speeches claiming that they love open source and that by paying these law suits that they are really funding it.

Re:1994? Should have sued them then.

[Anonymous Coward]

I am so glad that we have moved away from SHIFT+ALT+CTRL F11 for foo.

I take it you're not an Emacs user... :-)

Half a billion

[truthsearch]

"We are pleased that we have been able to resolve a portion of our pending legal issues with Microsoft"

Well, duh! You're going to get a check for over half a billion dollars. I'd be more than "pleased."

Re:$ sign in front?

[julesh]

No. But the sign still goes in front.

w00t!

[pr0nbot]

That's the executive pay [marklogic.com] more than taken care of, now they can get nice fat "performance"-related bonuses too!

Ah, just kidding, they're doing good stuff.

Business practice

[Golobarti]

1. Develop word processing software
2. Attempt to compete with Microsoft
3. Watch the share prices take a dive
4. Fire sell software to Corel for $186 Million
5. Watch Corel's share price take a dive
6. Sue Microsoft
7. Settle with Microsoft for $536 Million
8 Profit!

Simpsons Quote

[heri0n]

Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, Compuglobalhypermeganet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
-- Bill Gates, "Das Bus"

% Homer and Marge quietly discuss this proposal.

Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!
Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane laughter]
-- Bill Gates buys Homer's Internet company, "Das Bus"

Re:easy handout

[Anonymous Coward]

Positioning yourself with a market strategy of kicking Microsoft in the balls will probably get you lots of goodwill in certain sectors. I don't know it that would translate into actual sales, though.

eval flag?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

The first time I read it as "Evil" flag. I think there should be an evil distro, to compete with *BSD the operating system that keeps coming back from the dead and has a demonic icon.