[NTLUG:Discuss] M$ to sell Suse

[Chris Cox]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.
> 

See: http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html