Eben Moglen, the Free Software Foundation's attorney, has just had an interview with The Register. Therein he explains his strategy for breaking any effectiveness of Novell's Deal with Microsoft. Below lie a couple of snippets which were selectively extracted from the full interview.

"We're going to make the deal not tenable and we urge Microsoft to back away as gracefully and as quickly as possible from a deal that won't work."

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"If GPL 3 goes into effect with these terms in it, Novell will suddenly becomes a patent laundry; the minute Microsoft realizes the laundry is under construction it will withdraw."