Novell's pact with the devil...

[mikef]

http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-1522-2090_2031918

 

[Daniedj]

I thought I was dreaming. Cross licensing?

 

[duderoo]

I thought this day would never come, I actually prefer Novell.

 

[jontyB]

I preferred SuSE, but I will now boycott anything Novell and encourage everyone I know to do the same.

 

[doobiwan]

I wish the Penguinista would just get off their frikkin conspiracy theories. It's a good thing for Open Source in the long run.

http://www.ftponline.com/channels/arch/2006_11/pvarhol/

As someone who's used to working with corporates, 90% of their OSS reservations and c*ck ups are in interoperability with MS. This gives MS and Novell a concrete interop platform to sell to customers, which will drive OSS further into companies, previously reluctant to experiment.

 

[flarkit]

Doobiwan, I certainly hope that you're spot-on with that. I've also just this week decided that Suse is the distro for me, but if MS is going to use this as an opportunity to close down one of the big names in Linux, then I'd rather go back to Ubuntu.