Is there a secret story behind the Novell/Microsoft deal?
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| The basic skinny is that some renegade Microsoft employees who
| believe in open standards and open source approached Microsoft
| lawyers with a scheme to disarm the Microsoft patent portfolio.
| They got together with geeks and lawyers at Novell to make this
| happen. At some point, sales guys and management at one or both
| companies saw this as an opportunity for Novell to make money,
| and for Microsoft to manipulate the Linux market. They wrested
| the process away from the people who originated it, and the end
| result was the abominable deal that went forward.
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| Ironically, according to this story, people like Steve Ballmer
| were totally unaware of what was going on until the deal was
| sealed. So all of the posturing that Steve Ballmer has done
| since the deal is after-the-fact FUD-mongering.
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| It didn't sound credible to me, at first, but my source is
| reliable, and the people to whom he refers fit perfectly
| into this scenario.
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