[tlug] Microsoft, SCO... & Novell?

["Roger Markus" <rogermarku@example.com>]

Over at Linux Magazine (http://www.linux-mag.com/), Bryan Richard has pointed out yet another angle to the Novel-Microsoft issue, in an editorial here:
http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2842/

Some quotes from that follow:

   Novell paid handsomely for that patent indemnification -- both in cash and community PR -- you have to assume they're going to put it to use and acquiring XenSource would put them in a position to leverage it.
   Of course all of this idle speculation on a slow news day could amount to nothing. But regardless of whether the intellectual property threats are real or implied, the Open Source market seems to have graduated from feature wars to information wars. The open solutions of 2007 could start to be judged not just by if they solve technical problems but if they also pass muster with a company's Chief Legal Officer.
   And that's a shame. The last thing that Open Source vendors need is customers asking, "Is it safe?" It's what SCO aimed for and failed to accomplish.
   But if done correctly, Novell could show SCO a thing or two about how the game is played.

RM