Will Sun blow up the Microsoft/Novell deal to Red Hat's benefit?
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| Enter Sun's open source Java decision. Novell's Mono project --
| essentially a Linux-based clone of Microsoft's .Net -- was apparently
| a major focus of the deal. For several years now, dating back to
| the days before Ximian was under Novell's wing, the open source
| sector has been wondering if Microsoft was going to drop a shoe
| on Ximian-founder Miguel de Icaza's brainchild (Mono). .Net has
| always been a bet-the-company gamble for Microsoft. Today, the
| company is taking heat on every single front and it can't afford
| a complete cave-in on one of its most important properties. There's
| no way it could let a .Net clone get away with murder. Sooner or
| later, this was going to come to a head. Well, now it has.
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