I'd like to know, too. When the agreement was first signed, Microsoft vociferously insisted that it wasn't subject to GPLv3. But now that it's continuing to reinforce this agreement, it seems to me it's just digging itself deeper into the GPL anti-patent trap.

What a well written article. Novell and Microsoft together again... music to my ears.

I'm really interested to see how this will play out with the patent provisions in GPLv3, seeing as SUSE will undoubtedly ship with the GPLv3+ SAMBA.