[Leaplist] Hmmm - MS/Novell

[Chris]

Straight from the horse's mouth (sorry, wrong end of the horse)

In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer Thursday declared his belief that the Linux operating system
infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property.

Ballmer was more open Thursday.

"Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody 
who uses
SUSE Linux is appropriately covered," Ballmer said. This "is important 
to us,
because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an 
undisclosed
balance-sheet liability."

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;839593139;fp;16;fpid;1

Cheers,

Chris