“Although Novell’s market positioning might turn off some
quarters in the open source community, Koster asserted that “Linux
and the open source community is an important part of what we
do…and we will not ignore them”.“”But, the real question is, what about our customers? At the
end of the day, the market will decide what’s good and bad,” he
said, adding that most Novell customers welcomed the
Microsoft-Novell pact which had caused a stir among some open
source groups.”