Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 19th Sep 2008 21:53 UTC
Microsoft and Novell have made good on their 2006 interoperability pact. Microsoft and Novell jointly announced that Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise has been optimized to run as an "enlightened" guest on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor platform. Windows Server 2008 customers have been able to run as a virtualized guest on SUSE since last June, when SUSE became the first member of Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program, which Novell has helped to fine-tune. Now SUSE is optimized to run on Microsoft's Hyper-V as well.
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2005-07-06
I think the concerns are not around a technical partnership assuming it results in free and open source code unencumbered by patents that goes into various upstream project instead of a proprietary distribution specific deal.
The real concern is around the patent deal which creates a unhealthy imbalance as expressed by Eben Moglen from Software Freedom Law Center in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YExl9ojclo