Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source?

Posted Dec 22, 2010 13:12 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
In reply to: Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source? by jmm82
Parent article: Attachmate Acquisition: What does it mean for SUSE, openSUSE & open source?

[Novell] Selling 882 patents to CPTN Holdings LLC(Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC) is not the best way to engage the Open Source community.

What disgusts me is how a bunch of dominant companies, some bordering on monopolies (and, short of that, demonstrating clear monopolist tendencies), get together to share ownership in a holding company dealing in monopoly/anticompetitive instruments, and this doesn't seem to appear on any regulatory radar screen.