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Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project, which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.

So you're switching from Windows to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who've taken the plunge, it's likely you're making the move to take advantage of Linux's stability and reliance on open standards. Now all you have to do is prepare carefully for your move.

Novell has announced an upgrade to its Mono software that should make it easier for developers to port .Net desktop applications to Linux.

In a significant acknowledgement of the viability of Linux as a desktop OS, Microsoft has announced a deal with Novell to support Suse Linux on machines that run Windows.

In a significant acknowledgement of the viability of Linux as a desktop OS, Microsoft is expected to announce a deal with Novell to support Suse Linux on machines that run Windows, according to published reports.

Juergen Geck, former chief technology officer at Suse Linux, will leave the company at the end of this week, parent company Novell has confirmed. His departure follows on those of several other former Suse executives.

SuSE CTO Juergen Geck is planning to leave Novell at the end of the month.

New CTO Jeffrey Jaffe needs to unify the disparate Suse and Ximian open source teams

Despite ambitious plans, the server software vendor is still struggling to reinvent itself for the 21st century.

When SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from Novell ast week, he became the third former SuSE executive to leave in the past six months. There was much speculation as to why Mantel left, which was sparked, in part, by the manner of his leaving. He announced his resignation via a Linux e-mail discussion list, claiming that SuSE had changed so much it was no longer the company he had founded 13 years before.

Novell has backed down on a decision to end support for the KDE desktop on the Suse Linux distribution, following an outcry from users.