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Company Statement: OSI asks US Department of Justice to investigate CPTN transaction

( January 19, 2011, 20:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Open Source Initiative, an organisation dedicated to promoting open source software, has announced that  it has been joined by the Free Software Foundation in its concerns regarding plans by a consortium of companies, including Microsoft, Oracle, and Apple, to acquire Novell's patent assets under an entity named CPTN. The parties have sent a letter to the US Department of Justice outlining their concerns and asking the regulator to look into the transaction....

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