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[News] Novell Tried GNU/Linux Back in 1994

Nine things you don't know about Novell

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| 7. When did Novell first start tinkering with Linux?
| 
| As early as 1994, with the launch of the Corsair skunkworks
| project at Novell. Corsair was a project to create a desktop
| metaphor to compete with Windows. When then-president of
| Novell Ray Noorda retired and Robert Frankenburg took over,
| Frankenburg cut out many of Novell's unofficial products. A
| number of employees, dissatisfied with the decision to abandon
| their project, left Novell and founded Caldera with funding
| from Noorda.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/040507-nine-things-about-novell.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

Ray Noorda never ever trusted Microsoft. If only he was still around to warn
Novell...

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