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The past week has seen much in the way of musings about Linux and Oracle's role in its future. Some of the musings have included the assorted possibilities of Oracle buying Red Hat, Novell, the rights to another Linux distribution or even developing its own distribution. The fact is no-one knows what Oracle plans to do. However, there are some indisputable facts on the table which point toward Oracle buying a Linux vendor.