Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
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| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
At least Novell is still good for something...
SCO vs. Novell: The bankruptcy wars
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| So it is that every time it appears that SCO's cases are finally coming to an
| end the company seems to find a new way to continue its litigation. The
| bankruptcy court's ruling on whether SCO can be sold will be SCO's next
| critical test. If the deal with York is allowed, SCO's Unix and Linux
| litigation seems certain to continue for at least another year. This SCO soap
| opera is far from over.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6535488710.html
Related:
Speaking of Linux and the spirit of open source
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| Novell doesn't need to urinate in the pool from which it hopes to build its
| future, but that is precisely what it is doing. It can and should do better.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9788233-16.html
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
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| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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