Novell agrees to change its proposed deal to sell patents to CPTN Holdings, a Microsoft-organized consortium of companies. Microsoft will not be able to keep the patents it proposed to buy from the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The deal will satisfy DOJ concerns about the impact on open-source software, the DOJ said. Microsoft said it was pleased that the patent sale is moving forward and the merger of Attachmate is on track. The Open Source Initiative said it approves of the DOJ deal.”]
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