Is Novell-SuSE deal a brilliant Big Blue power play? - TechUpdate - ZDNet

Is Novell-SuSE deal a brilliant Big Blue power play? - TechUpdate - ZDNet: "Although no official from Novell or IBM would come out and say it, a reading between the various official lines reveals how IBM may have cleverly dodged the Linux indemnification issue while ripping the legal rug right out from under SCO.

Comment: I didn't realize this when I read the news yesterday. I was just happy for Suse, Novell and the push it would give Linux. This could be a serious blow to SCO with their lawsuit since Novell owns enough of copyright in Unix, that renders SCO suit meaningless in the case of Novell. It's way to complicated for me, but some people at IBM really got tired of SCO, and they went to Novell and said look this Enterprise Linux thing is big for us and you, we move SUSE in the entrprise, you Novell buy SUSE, and your directory business will growth as a side effect...And oh! btw, Screw SCO!"