[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft """"supporting"""" Linux

[Alan Pope]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/microsoft_novell_linux/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116249026689311557.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
http://news.google.com/?ncl=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/microsoft_novell_linux/&hl=en

"Microsoft Corp. is entering into an unusual partnership with Novell Inc. that gives a boost to 
the Linux operating system, a rival to the software giant's Windows software, according to 
people familiar with the companies."

Discuss :)

Is this "embrace and extend","keep friends close, enemies closer" or should we be happy about 
this?

Will our windows loving friends now point and say "see, linux is okay, microsoft say so!" now?

Cheers,
Al.