Nope, sales of Netware are probably bringing in 20+ times what any sales of Linux are bringing in. No wonder, you yourself are looking for a free download, right?
Last dog and pony show I was at from Novell said they had enough money on hand to last several years at their current burn rate.
They do have lots of cash, mostly thanks to lawsuits against Microsoft. Doesn't mean they're going to throw that all away if Linux isn't a viable business model.
I thought you were Mr. buy American? You want Novell to go out of business because they sell Linux?
I don't want them to go out of business, what I want to happen is what Jack Messman the CEO said might happen - for them to declare Linux as a non-viable business. They could be getting close, based on his recent conference call after reporting their latest loss.
Which is saying what, not much. How many companies are actually looking at Netware VS Windows? Probably only companies that already have Netware. Just this last three weeks I was contacted by three companies that want to migrate from Netware to Microsoft Windows 2003.
So what happens if they declare Linux non-viable? They don't exactly have a lot of products to sell.