Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Posted Nov 5, 2006 13:04 UTC (Sun) by job (subscriber, #670)
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Let's see if I understand this correctly:

1. Novell will pay unit royalties to Microsoft for a blanket patent license.

2. Novell will implement a partial support for the new Office XML format. Lack of multiple implementations was the major reason for the EU to choose Open Document instead.

3. Novell already uses the Xen hypervisor, which has a deal with Microsoft to make their APIs compatible, but we already knew that.

Please explain to me why Novell would do this? It smells exactly like SCO. Are there parts of this deal which hasn't been made public yet?

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