Ronald Hovsepian, who is Novell's CEO, continues to flip-flop. This following is an excerpt from a very recent interview.

CNME: Do you think the patent cooperation part of the agreement with Microsoft is in the best interest of Novell's customers?

Hovsepian: Absolutely. It's good for the customers because they don't have to worry about those things. I'm disappointed that we haven't communicated our intent as clearly [as we should have] to the [Linux] community. The messaging got bogged down.

Mind you, this comes after Hovsepian argued that he had not viewed the deal as one which revolves around patents, but rather around interoperability. This also comes after Novell called other Linux vendors to make similar deals with Microsoft, as well as admitted being selfish.