LinuxWatch, LinuxWorld and Jeremy’s Blog all show diffirent bits of info on the Microsoft/Xandors deal, for “intellectual property assurance that Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros Linux customers, along the lines of the recent Microsoft/Novell deal”.

“Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos said Thursday his company did not agree that its Linux distribution violates any Microsoft patents”.

Looks like Xandros is going the same way as Novell, let’s just hope that others such as Mandriva and other comercial Linux vendors don’t follow suit. In the words of Jeremy: it should be interesting to see how the community responds to this one.