Novell and Microsoft Collaborate
Microsoft's public attitude towards open source is changing rapidly. First the Microsoft Open Specification Promise promising not to make any claims against implementations of any of the specifications covered by the promise and now an announcement of the broad collaboration between Microsoft and Novell on Linux interoperability and support.
This agreement, amongst a hoard of other things, includes coverage for Mono which means open source deployments based on Mono can go ahead without fear of future patent infringements or lawsuits from Microsoft...
More on the announcement on Miguel de Icaza's blog.
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