Microsoft, however, must proceed with caution. Implicit in its deal with Novell is the subtlety that Microsoft products may be violating the patents of other technology companies. Says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation: "Microsoft has to be careful about what it starts because it doesn't know where it will end."
We don't either. But here are three plausible scenarios.
Bleh... this is SCO all over again except that Microsoft is sitting on something like $40B.
