“The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) cares about open
source.They care about open source so much that they’re forcing
Novell to alter their deal with CPTN over the sale of 882 patents.
CPTN is a group that includes Microsoft, Apple and EMC.“The DoJ basically saw the deal as originally constructed as a
risk to the open source ecosystem.“According to the DoJ, Microsoft will sell back to Attachmate
all of the Novell patents that Microsoft would have otherwise
acquired, but will continue to receive a license for the use of
those patents.