The Wall Street Journal published a spot-on article a few days ago about the Novell+Microsoft arrangement.
It’s only available online to subscribers, so I scanned it:
And making the news yesterday, The CEO of Microsoft has straight up said that every (with the exception of Novell/SuSE of course!) linux company, developer, and user is violating Microsoft-held patents, [...]
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Lots of talk about the Novell+Microsoft agreement. I don’t have much to say, but wanted to post something.
From the Microsoft Press Release:
Novell will also make running royalty payments based on a percentage of its revenues from open source products.
I find this particularly disturbing, considering that all of the compatibility problems between Windows and Linux are [...]