Microsoft Courts Red Hat

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Feb 21 23:31:51 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 21 February 2007, alan wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:41:15 -0500
>>
>> taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
>>> Microsoft is to form a partnership with Red Hat to improve the
>>> interoperability of Windows and Linux, according to Tom Robertson,
>>> Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards.
>>
>> But the only interoperability problems are always caused by
>> Microsoft refusing to actually obey existing RFCs. What's the
>> partnership going to do? Break redhat the same way microsoft
>> is already broken?
>
>I suspect it is an attempt to trick them into violating some hidden IP
>landmine.
>
>I don't truct Micorsoft as far as I can throw Balmer.
>
With, or without his chair?  The chair might be an advantage as it would 
offer a firmer grip...

>--
>"Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains
> nothing." - University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark



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