True valuation

True valuation

Posted Nov 5, 2003 21:36 UTC (Wed) by dkite (guest, #4577)
In reply to: True valuation by freeio
Parent article: On Novell's acquisition of SUSE

What did they buy? A name?

Watching this industry adapt to open source and free software is very interesting. And I grow
in respect for IBM, who instead of 'buying' something, spent money to contribute to projects
that mattered to them.

Why didn't Novell do that? $210 million would finish up a whole lot of desktop projects.

Derek

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