The nature of Novell's landmark deal with Microsoft -- thoroughly detailed in Novell's annual report and SEC filings -- demonstrates the riskiness of open-source players forging partnerships with proprietary software vendors, according to analyst Dana Gardner. "This development shows the brittle nature of intellectual property," he said.

SCO and Novell have filed the most documents -- 16 filings, plus exhibits -- we've ever had in a single day. That only happens when I say I need to go to the beach. But one of the nicest things happened. Novell has responded [PDF] to SCO's slur against Groklaw

There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to Novell customers.

It's been a busy week heading up to the Novell trial in Utah, and I had an accident, which is why I've been offline. I am recovering now, and we'll have the more detailed reports from the hearing shortly. There were some additional filings on Friday and this morning, including some more decisions from Judge Stewart (we have 762 as text), and some more pre-trial filings from both sides.

Former Novell CEO Ray Noorda used to speak about coopetition — the need to both cooperate and compete with technology companies. But the current Microsoft-Novell relationship is giving new meaning to the term coopetition, especially during this week’s BrainShare.

If you recall, Novell's former best friend for SUSE Linux was Microsoft. Microsoft and Novell have a partnership where the two parties had certificates that indemnified SUSE users from any intellectual property liability. In addition, Microsoft officially recommended SUSE Linux Enterprise for hybrid Windows/Linux shops.

There are more filings in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust case over WordPerfect.

The OSI seems to mention us again because it slowly realises that Novell and Microsoft build a shared monopoly

We recently showed how Microsoft is ’stealing’ from Novell’s GroupWise. Is this the company that Novell is serving in so many ways? Why? Has Novell forgotten the past so quickly? Examples from the news of Novell problems and loss of business to Microsoft.