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> Micoshaft Terminates Novel Deal
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>
> For Immediate Press Release:
>
> Redmond, WA.
>
> Dated 30/03/2007
>
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> Micoshaft has announced it is terminating Novel deal
> with immediate effect and demanded all its money back.
>
> Ron Hoosepien is reported to have reacted angrily
> to this unexpected termination calling micoshaft's balding
> chairmain a 'woman' and he started throwing chairs around
> the room imitating a person called blammer employed by micoshaft.
>
> The bombshell appears to have been ignited in a twist
> of patent action when NOVEL tried to assert one
> of its OWN patents AGAINST Micoshaft.
>
> In a twist of fate, when that action failed,
> Novel then tried to assert
> its patent against micoshaft developers.
>
> Gropelaw covered the lawsuit and points out that micoshaft
> developers are not technically micoshaft customers
> that should be sued by Novel. However it condemned
> micoshaft's inaction and doing nothing about Novel
> patent lawsuit as predatory and reactionary because it could be.
>
> Ron Hoosepian appears to have initiated these series of
> actions on learning that micoshaft has dedicated
> vast amounts of internal resources and subcontrators
> to develop own version of GNU/Linux which was a variant of Puppy Linux
> http://www.livecdlist.com
Puppy Linux? Finally, Vista is getting a facelift.
> Internal memos show the Novel deal was overpaid for, and it would have
> been better spent making own Linux distro.
> Both Novel and Micoshaft knew this, but they went ahead
> with this deal hoping other developers would be suckered
> into becoming satellite companies owned by micoshaft and
> Novel. But that seems to have back fired by the reactions
> of the community, in particular the immininent introduction
> of GPL3 which could change the landscape of open source forever.
> http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2007-03-28.html
>
> Ron Hoosepian appears to targetted his lawsuit
> against micoshaft developers in a reverse SCO$ style
> hair brained scheme to let micoshaft
> buy out Novel eventually when Novel go bankrupt.
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