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Novell vs. Mandriva: Don't Confuse 2 Potential Linux Sales
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The thing that makes me shudder is if M$ buys Novell, either outright or through proxy, there are going to be some obvious ramifications to their cross-patent deals with M$. M$ could essentially cause the non-lawsuit pact to go up in smoke and then try to open up an all-out patent war against other Linux distributions/device manufacturers, while simultaneously shutting down SuSE, cutting the flow of interoperability with Linux down to just M$'s terms.
If IBM were smart, THEY'D buy Novell. IBM could easily gain the upper hand against M$ with networking with THAT kind of arrangement. Nobody better than Big Blue to act as a protector of Linux. After the SCO debacle, it would give them two battlefronts against that proxy attack from M$ against them.
It wouldn't be a bad prospect for Intel either... They could pick up some nice Novell networking patents (I'm assuming Novell has a few), and at the same time gain armorment for their love/hate relationship with M$. Plus, Big Blue wouldn't have to get bigger, and Intel seems to have a non-antagonistic relationship with IBM.
Dell could buy them... But they seem to be doing just fine with their relationship with Canonical.