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November 08, 2006
It's starting to make sense
So, I've talked to a few people about the MS <-> Novell ( Suse linux ) thing and we were doing some head scratching and the best I could figure, MS realized it wasn't going to "beat" linux, so it might as well co-opt one of the linux companies.
Then today I catch an article at ars about the details of the agreement.
There's some interesting stuff in there about cross payments and agreements for each to not sue the others end users. The article mentions that some proponents of the GPL wonder if SUSE violated it with this deal but it looks like they've side stepped the parts of the GPL because they made no promises not to sue MS, just not to sue MS's customers if it turns out anything MS sells infringes on IP that SUSE has.
The agreements have MS putting money into a combined sales force, I wonder if the byline will be "SUSE, you know,the one we won't sue you for using". GoGo FUD-bot ;)
Posted by bucjos at November 8, 2006 04:27 PM