Novell continued its awkward split between courting the open source community and helping enterprises run their business today at the Linuxworld conference.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian in his keynote applauded the Free Software Foundation and Eben Moglen for their work on the GPLv3 license. He also reemphasised that the company would ship GPLv3 code to customers under the Microsoft Linux coupon programme.

09 Aug 2007

The FSF and Moglen haven't exactly put Novell on their Christmas card list after the company essentially validated Microsoft's patent threat.

But Novell also could turn out to be a Trojan horse that tears down that threat, if the FSF can proof that Microsoft is distributing GPLv3 code.