Good-bye Mr. Noorda
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| Indeed, not long before he retired because of the onslaught of
| Alzheimers, Noorda believed that Linux was the future for Novell
| and supported Bryan Sparks and Ransom Love in an internal Linux
| skunkworks project.
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| Novell, by then under Bob Frankenberg, killed off the Linux project.
| Soon thereafter, Noorda cut his ties with Novell. Noorda wasn't done
| with Linux even if the Novell of the mid-90s was. He used his
| investment company, The Canopy Group, to bankroll Caldera Systems, one
| of the first Linux companies
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| It was only years later that Novell realized the error of its ways
| and bought SUSE to return to Linux. Had Noorda had his way, Novell,
| and not Red Hat, would today be the number one Linux company.
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