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1996 – Corel not only gets WordPerfect form Novell, but also Quattro Pro for $180 million in stock and cash. Michael Cowpland (Founder of Corel) called WordPerfect the “Pepsi to Microsoft’s Coke”. I guess that was not the case as OpenOffice (RC maybe?) surpassed WordPerfect users.

WordPerfect and Corel have been in flux since 2006, when Vector Capital purchased 72% of the company. Just this last year, they bought up the remaining stock and became privately held once again.

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2008 – After a long court battle with the Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) group, a judge rules that Novell is the owner of UNIX and UNIXWare copyrights. In 2003 – just after SCO changed their name from Caldera – had made a claim that the SCO IP was incorporated into Linux and that they should get a cut from each copy sold. Novell states that they own the code to UNIX and therefore this claim was not valid. The battle went on, and still goes on to this day, with SCO group dwindled down to a shell (no pun intended). Part of the rulings on this case have been reversed since.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• BadTrans worm is released
• AOL acquires Netscape Communications
• Nolan Bushnell patents the Pong controller

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2007 – Linux developer Mandriva sent and open letter to Steve Ballmer. Mandriva was working with the Nigerian government to get Linux into their systems. Ballmer stepped in and got the contract. Because of this, CEO Francois Bancilhon sent a letter questioning his ethics.

Other Day in Tech History items:

• Novell Open SUSE Community elected board
• DEC sues AltaVista
• The IBM PCjr is released

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