http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/13/patent-risk-novell/

Before the FSF blocked Microsoft using the GNU GPL, Microsoft was hoping to drive Red Hat (and others) out of business by selling its own Linux through Novell (it cannot acquire Novell because of antitrust issues). Remember that Microsoft earns money from sales of Novell Linux. It also controls the quality of interoperability and optimization. When you control your product and your rival’s product, here is what you get:

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/16/making-money-from-rival/

Follow the links therein.

Icing on the cake. Posts like these keep me optimistic. Let’s show more of these ones, to take our minds of the possibility GNU and free software are on the way out…