Assuming that Novell's buyer will only care about immediate profit, the OpenSUSE community should start considering independent life outside Novell

The "vulture fund" responds to Novell's first rejection of a takeover, which still leaves room for more offers to be made

Novell expects to evaluate initial takeover bids for the company this week, according to The Wall Street Journal. As many as 20 companies have expressed interest in Novell, the Journal said. Of course, The VAR guy has his own opinion of the situation. Here it is.

As BrainShare kicks off it becomes apparent that Novell does not reject a takeover and Microsoft could be among the bidders

Lots of Novell news ranging from SCO and Netware to hardware and people. WHAT a week of pranks it must have been for Novell. Between rumours of an IBM takeover to similar ones involving Microsoft, Novell sure needed a sense of humour. Here is another joke about Novell bidding for Linus Torvalds.

OK, so sometimes I'm wrong. Miguel de Icaza called out an error I made in criticizing Novell for its open-source strategy. I admit that I find it hard to see beyond Novell's patent pact with Microsoft but, as Miguel pointed out in a string of emails between us today (which he graciously allowed me to cite), this leaves out a lot that Novell does well.

Novell senior cannot deny Microsoft takeover, but she thinks it is unlikely. What about Dell?

As part of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel and Stephan Kulow about KIWI, openSUSE’s operating system imaging solution.

OpenSUSE 11.3 and OpenSUSE Build Service 2.0 are nearly ready, but Novell's situation casts some doubt