Why? "running royalty payments to Microsoft" [LWN.net]

Why? "running royalty payments to Microsoft"

Posted Nov 3, 2006 13:13 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
In reply to: Why? by landley
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Remember, the point of the SCO thing (from Microsoft's perspective) was to attach per-unit royalties to Linux.

Which seems to be precisely what they will get now with Novell/Suse. From the Novell to make 'running royalty payments' to Microsoft article:

Who would have imagined Microsoft receiving royalty payments from a Linux vendor based on the ongoing sale of its open-source products? It could have been one of the main incentives for Microsoft to make the broader agreement -- which, on the flip side, will have Microsoft's sales force promoting Novell's Suse Linux to business customers that decide to go the Linux route.

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Why? "running royalty payments to Microsoft"

Posted Nov 4, 2006 11:11 UTC (Sat) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

The flip side has been summed up by Steve Ballmer in the conference this way :
« If anybody is confused by the end of the press conference, I'll say it now, you've got a new application that you want to instance, I'm going to tell you the right answer is Windows, Windows, Windows. »

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2006/11-02N...

Funny how reading the legal documents on the MS site and what MS execs actually said in the conference, is a tad different from the Novell FAQ. I don't see MS agreeing to any of the groundbreaking changes Novell advances to justify selling out.