Novell is now caught between a rock and a hard place, on one hand they're so broke they had to go into an agreement with Microsoft simply for the dollars, on the other hand their primary customer base is so anti-Microsoft they could be destroyed anyway. Bottom line, another American Unix company pays the piper for involving themselves with Linux and open source. Sun, Silicon Graphics, SCO, Cray, Novell, the list continues to grow of companies who are now shadows of their former selves. Even IBM is about to be passed by HP as the world's largest computer company. Microsoft? Still leading in profits, at record levels most every quarter.
How many times do I have to set you straight? Sun, SGI and Cray lost it because they couldn't keep pace with the hardware from Intel and AMD, not because of OS competition. It used to be that about the fastest thing you could have on your desktop was a Sun SPARC or an SGI MIPS, but not anymore -- it's an Intel or AMD.
Novell was screwed before it started playing with Linux. First by Microsoft, then successively by itself.
And you have it backwards with SCO, because it wasn't a UNIX company that got involved with Linux, it was a Linux company that got involved with UNIX.
And Windows itself ships with open source software, so you lost your argument there.