Why doesn't IBM just buy Novell already?

[viking60]

I actually started pondering this a few days before the Novell-SCO ruling on Tuesday clearly put Novell in an important position as a “[defender of] Linux on the intellectual property front.” Why, you ask, would a Googley Edu blogger be thinking about major players in the enterprise Linux market? Because I can see an open source showdown in the making here, the beneficiaries of which will be consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and educational institutions. I don’t get the feeling the showdown will be any fun, though, if Novell is left to its own devices.....

What do you think of this?

[dedanna1029]

Dude, I can hardly describe Ubuntu as "sexy" the way he did.

I'm seeing two things here. SCO is a money-grubbing pig of a corporation (but then what larger corporation isn't), and Novell is hanging in there with Open Source. I could care less if Apple or M$ own them, so long as they themselves remain Open Source.

So really, at the end of the day, what's the problem here?

[viking60]

Yes he does not seem to be very informed about Linux. And who said there was a problem? I just wanted some views on it. I have yours.
Larger corporation's are money-grubbing pigs. I can understand Large and money-grubbing - but why pigs? Corporations are mostly expected to grub money that is the idea - kind of. What would you like the large corporations to do?

[dedanna1029]

Invest a portion into treating and paying their employees well, as well as lower their costs, which can pass on to the consumer. Same thing everyone wants, I guess.

Also, not be involved politically; throw lobbying away, etc. etc., so they can't corrupt politicians.