Novell and Microsoft have decided to co exist. I am not sure this is good or bad though my intuition tells me its something bad. A few articles regarding this development
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/microsoft_novell_suse_linux/
http://tuxmachines.org/node/10729
http://tuxmachines.org/node/10726
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