[Leaplist] MS and Novel join forces

[David Simmons]

> is this a good thing?  on the surface i can see benefit from having
a
> company as powerful as MS backing Linux via Novell, but is
this really
> what is happening?

from Chris Cox of
NTLUG:


> If you read Novell's announcement you'll
get a clearer
> picture.  M$ isn't
going to sell SUSE, however, Novell is
> the Linux partner of choice when Microsoft needs to
bring
> Linux in on a sale.  Biggest
thing it the patents deal which
>
means that Microsoft won't use their patents against
> Novell (and vice versa).  Since not using patents
against
> Novell implies not using
patents against a lot of open
>
source software, this could be a very good thing.
> 

See: http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html