Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html > > As much as you like to see SUSE dead, I don't see any more chance of > that happening with this new agreement than without it. The guts of it > seems to be to make use of virtualisation technology - well that isn't a > surprising development. I don't see either what Novell is losing there, > but it's winning patents cash and assurance of not being sued by Billy. > In return it can't sue Billy either, oh well as if that was likely to > happen.
My take is that Novell is saved from patent litigation [from themselves and *only* their customers] while Microsoft gets a stooge to implement their 'open' office XML format so that they fight the adoption of ODF. Course that is my biased opinion of the events - everyone has their own. Glynn
