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What’s the big deal?

Everybody is making a big deal about this announcement between Microsoft and Novell.  Here’s a piece of the e-mail I got from Novell:

Let me begin by quickly outlining what we just announced. Microsoft and Novell, starting today, have agreed to build and market solutions so that Novell’s technology works on Microsoft and vice versa. Specifically, customers will now be able to run virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise on Windows or Windows on SUSE Linux Enterprise. This landmark agreement also calls for both Microsoft and Novell to provide patent coverage to each others’ customers for our respective products. Why is that important? It’s important because you shouldn’t have to spend a lot of time worrying about legal matters around which operating system to choose. You also shouldn’t have to worry about barriers such as intellectual property agreements, who owns which patent portfolio, and indemnification. None of those issues move your business forward. Now many of those barriers have been removed.

Uhhh.... whooptidoo?  Have these guys heard of VMWare?  I’ve been running virtualized Linux on Windows for eons.  And they promise to quit suing each other.  Well, that’s great too, I guess.  I’m pretty underwhelmed, frankly.  Sort of makes me wonder if the announcement has something to do with this. 

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