Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Jun 2007 16:57 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a set of broad collaboration agreements with Linux provider Xandros that include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros customers. In the meantime, Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3 users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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Sounds like a good move by Xandros, if it gives them an inside track with adding there servers on a windows network with out issues.
Could see great things from this,
Using Windows servers to provide the adsi, and there server to provide web and file sharing all with in adsi.
Except I seriously doubt that Microsoft's intention is to promote the use of Linux.
Short-term windfall for Xandros, maybe. But, in the long run, Xandros will not benefit, and I don't see the Open Source community benefiting, either.