The same as always, to get paid for their intellectual property^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Uh huh. Anybody who's followed MS' history knows there's more to it than that. SJVN asks the obvious question.
I can't think of a single software company that has ever done well in an alliance with Microsoft. Can you?
Now, I'm sure there's a handful who have. But let's compare the short list vs the long list. SJVN is dead on.
Enlarging your fonts isn't necessary. Obviously Novell wouldn't have done this unless they thought it was necessary. But, unfortunately for them, Linux hasn't helped their bottom line really at all despite their hope to somehow make big money off "free" software. This is their admission that business plan doesn't really work, except perhaps for one dominant company, like Red Hat, which may not make it now either since Oracle is making free copies of their work and cutting in on their already puny support dollars.
Novell is going to try to "Appleize" Linux, and include lots of proprietary code in there to distinguish themselves from all the cloners and hopefully earn a license fee for each copy. Will it work? Who knows, but it's the smartest thing anyone has tried yet. Unless you think the leftist utopian dream of all software being free is somehow smart.