[CLUE-Talk] Interesting times: Novell acquires SUSE

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:19, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:04:08 -0700
> "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:
> 
> > >  Most likely they will cut a deal with Canopy to buy their share of
> > >  trolltech 
> > > or they will cut a deal with trolltech to invest more.
> > 
> > Buying Canopy's share wouldn't cut them much, Canopy only has a 5.7%
> > interest (if you count SCO's 1.6%) according to this:
> > 
> > Investors:
> > http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/investors.html
> 
> Lemme get this straight. Canopy (major shareholder of SCO?) is also an
> investor in TrollTech, while SCO is foaming at the mouth over the GPL?
> Hmmm. I see they also include LinuxNetworx in their portfolio. Has anybody
> heard what Ray Noorda has to say (if anything) about SCO?

Yeah, Canopy is also an investor in Xandros, or they were at one time. I
don't see Xandros on the Canopy site anymore...

Remember, though -- Canopy is a minor investor in Trolltech, while they
have a much larger stake in SCO. 

Noorda doesn't talk to the press anymore, apparently. From what I can
tell, Noorda no longer owns a significant percentage of Novell. 

> Where's the benefit to Canopy over stomping on their Linux holdings?

Their Linux holdings are small compared to the potential payout, I
guess... 

We (LinuxMall.com) had dealings with Canopy when we were trying to go
public during the great stupidity of 1999-2000. To say that I have
little love for Canopy, and even less trust, is about the most polite
way I can put it. 

Zonker
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