Some of the key developers at Novell are going public with complaints about the company's deal with Microsoft. The arrangement calls for co-marketing Windows with the Suse version of the Linux open source OS that Novell offers. Apparently, some of the covenants in the agreement do not give Linux developers enough protection from potential intellectual property claims from Microsoft.
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Some of the key developers at Novell are going public with complaints about the company's deal with Microsoft. The arrangement calls for co-marketing Windows with the Suse version of the Linux open source OS that Novell offers. Apparently, some of the covenants in the agreement do not give Linux developers enough protection from potential intellectual property claims from Microsoft.