Goodness, didn't Microsoft just spit in Richard Stallman's eye? The GPL creator's attempts to stop Microsoft from cutting any more of those patent-protection deals like the one it cut with Novell don't quite seem to be working. The last draft of the Microsoft-limiting GPLv3 was barely in circulation when Microsoft announced first thing Monday morning that it had pocketed a five-year deal with the little 80-man Debian commercializer Xandros, the New York outfit that bought Corel's Linux distribution, the code that used to be underneath Linspire (nee Lindows), a company more associated with the desktop than the server.