GrokLaw editor Pamela Jones headlined the deal as Novell Sells Out, and here are some more updates from her regarding legal issues concerning the deal. While Bruce Perens also has an interesting piece here. However, since a lot of people are showing their disgust with Novell currently, I’d space u with that and quote somthing quite interesting from Perens’ article’s comments section…

jwwjr: I wonder how Linus Torvalds feels right now. His arrogance toward Richard Stallman regarding GPLv3 has been sickening. Richard enabled Linus, Linus did not enable Richard.
Is Linus ready to be Bill and Steve’s bitch now? Does he care?
Linus is a great programmer and project manager, but in terms of vision and setting strategy for free software (disregarding Mr. Stallman’s philosophical zeal, looking at this on the merits only), Linus is not fit to carry Richard Stallman’s water, and is in fact, dangerous. He doesn’t know the edge of his competencies.

Bruce Perens: Linus is playing Alfred E. Newman, the character from Mad magazine whose motto was “What, Me Worry?”
His response was “Why assume that everyone has to be enemies? Let’s see how this plays out”.
I agree with you, Linus botches strategy outside of software and it would be best if he’d shut up about it.

I’ve even said it before that you can call me a fundamentalist prick but I only care for stuff coved by GPL. I understand there are other “Free” licenses, like the BSD one, that give you many of the freedom w/o putting any restrictions but they do more harm than any good — need I ask you to say hello to the MacOSX kernel? We do need some restriction to protect our freedom. Thanks to upcoming GPL v3, we’ll have some new statements covering patents and DRM issues that were not previously covered. Although, the Linux devs can choose not to accept it and go down the drain for all I care. Adios!!