Both Novell and IBM again find themselves in competition with Microsoft on the operating-system level, but there's a difference this time around. Instead of pushing their own products, whether it's OS/2 or NetWare, neither company owns Linux. "We're merely giving the community software and services to make Linux easier for the CIO to use," Messman said. "We contribute to the code, but we're not in charge of the open-source community."
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