Microsoft is paying Novell $440 mil to provide support to for SUSE Linux to its users, and in a backend deal Novell is paying Microsoft $40 mil to license linux.
Microsoft has always claimed that the linux kernel has infringing code in it. This deal could be used as a sort of admission by Novell that this is true.
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.p...39;fp;2;fpid;1
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