"Based on eWEEK's now-disappeared headline, it sure looks like Xandros may have gone the Novell route and signed a patent-protection deal with Microsoft. (The other possibility is eWEEK believed Xandros was ready to sign on the dotted line, but didn't. My educated guess is there is a deal and eWEEK jumped the gun in publishing the "exclusive" story. Guess we'll find out for sure in a few more hours.)"
