Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[John McGregor]

To be honest, I was sort of expecting a play along these lines. With IBM
very likely to prevail in its request for summary judgment, and Novell
likely to win in the copyright dispute, the licenses that Microsoft
bought from SCO are now virtually worthless. In the event that any
linux, unix, and / or SCO code made its way into Vista, Microsoft is
going to be in need of a cheap out. Dumping a few $million (by a company
with very deep pockets) into a venture that will die silently in a
couple of years would seem to be a logical method of achieving such an aim.

John

John
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