"Novell's shares shot up 92 cents" -AP (Score 1)

Anybody remember Mosaic? How about Java? When has a strategic relationship with Microsoft EVER been in favor of the smaller company? Microsoft will proprietarize Suse, and then release their own distro that directly competes with it. Then they will stall Novells lawsuit until any revenues for Suse have been completely destroyed. This is the pattern, and there is no reason to suspect that it will change. This is probably a warning that MS will create their own release. The current major distros are quite fragmented at the moment with a lot of interoperability problems. They've already ripped off a lot of Linux and put it into windows. There is no reason to think that Win2008 won't be Linux based, and Suse by that time will no longer exist. But the market rewards Novell. Bwahahahha ha!