“Just as the year in open source was cruising to a finish in
2006–all gussied up in a neat bow for the year, November arrived
with a splash to re-draw the whole map.“That’s when Novell and Microsoft managed to get the tongues of
hard-bitten long-timers wagging over the companies’ deal to work
together on interoperability of open source systems and Microsoft
products, and address potential intellectual property litigation
issues…”