Microsoft software spreads from familiar places and enters some new places
Koenig, which works along with Novell [1, 2, 3], is promoting Silverlight right now. [all emphases in red are ours by the way]

Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project, which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.

Miguel de Icaza shows excitement over proprietary Silverlight, proceeds to promotion of closed-source software paradigms for developers; Microsoft's strategy with F/OSS is explained

Thomas Francese, Novell's executive vice president of worldwide sales, is leaving the company

Microsoft's Novell's Miguel de Icaza does not properly explain that GNU/Linux users need to download proprietary software exclusively from Novell in order to make Silverlight content available

Novell vice president and also a director move on to other companies; Novell's possession of UNIX continues to raise questions

Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza's Mono project has the ability to attract the right kind of developer to its ranks.

Novell's CTO Jeff Jaffe and Zonker (the symbol of OpenSUSE) say their last words before leaving Novell, replacements are imminent

Possible motivation (among several) for Novell's XAML excitement and obedience.