My morning scan of Slashdot today produced an interesting tidbit:  Novell has purchased Ximian.  Yes, the company behind the Mono project and many of the recent innovations in the GNOME project is now a division of Novell, a company whose business strategy over the past 15 years or so can be summed up as:  “Buy Microsoft’s competitors and run them into the ground.”

Say goodbye to Mono and GNOME.  They’ll be around, sure, but what you see today is what you’ll get in 5 years.  What I want to know is how Microsoft has gotten away with secretly funding Novell all these years