While Microsoft’s agreement with Novell to resell Suse Linux seemed secure as recently as last week, the Free Software Foundation may have finally found a way to put a bug into the program. The Free Software Foundation, an organization that controls the intellectual property to key parts of the open source Linux operating system, is reviewing Novell’s legal rights to sell any new versions of the Linux OS. Just last November, Microsoft inked a deal with Novell to increase the interoperability between the companies’ competing software products.

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