[NTLUG:Discuss] M$ to sell Suse

[Chris Cox]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> Looks like Oracle and Red Hat are the ones trying to sell to M$ , SuSE is
> just trying to get along with the Money Giant M$ .
> Is working with M$ so bad , I mean it sounds like a victory to me , or
> should I say M$ working with Novell .

If you read Novell's announcement you'll get a clearer
picture.  M$ isn't going to sell SUSE, however, Novell is
the Linux partner of choice when Microsoft needs to bring
Linux in on a sale.  Biggest thing it the patents deal which
means that Microsoft won't use their patents against
Novell (and vice versa).  Since not using patents against
Novell implies not using patents against a lot of open
source software, this could be a very good thing.