On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:15, tom poe wrote: > Seems to me, that's just plain nonsense, for both Red Hat and Novell. > What's going on? I'm not what you mean "for both Red Hat and Novell". Do you mean on Microsoft's part? Their approaches to Microsoft's motions have been very different. It is not clear at all that any Novell-type agreement is necessary, and unless Red Hat's legal counsel and developers determine that an agreement is necessary, why would they want to go down this road? I have been a full-time Linux-only user for 9 years now, and while technological superiority is the reason for a very large part of my loyalty, politics has been also. I ditched my copy of OpenSuse last week. Peter -- Dr. Peter D. Roopnarine, Assoc. Curator Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology California Academy of Sciences 875 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94103 Phone: (415) 321-8271 FAX: (415) 321-8615 http://zeus.calacademy.org/roopnarine/peter.htm "Description must be nonlinear, and prediction must be linear." Alan M. Turing