Microsoft Gets Novell Docs Before OSS Community

flydpnkrtn sends in an InformationWeek article arising out of Novell's SEC filing yesterday, asking: "Is this just more Novell-bashing material? Or is this no big deal? And of course this type of thing runs contrary to the 'spirit of the GPL'..." "Under its controversial alliance with Novell, Microsoft is entitled to receive key technical documentation from the Linux distributor even if that documentation is not generally available to open source software developers, according to a Novell document."

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Re:Don't Think This is Relevant

[Miguel de Icaza]

slightly OT but a few years ago there was an article where a high level microsoftie posibly Gates or Ballmer gave a quote something like (paraphrasing from distant memory):

"we didn't know how to fight linux, its like some strange alien thing to us, then novell bought suse, and we smiled - because beating novell is something we have done before, they are suckers, its gonna be easy"

A while back I decided this would make a great sig and googled high and low, but to no avail. Perhaps it was on an MS friendly news-site and has subsequently been purged. Does this ring any bells? Does anyone have a link to an article with a quote vaguely similar? It would be much appreciated thank you please.