Microsoft closes another deal, is redhat next?

[Les Mikesell]

Kelly wrote:
> On Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:36 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Any number larger than one is better than only one.  And if they all
>> interoperate correctly without worrying about whether they have to use
>> an infringing library to do it, so much the better.
> 
> I'd agree, except for the identity of the company 
> proposing "interoperability".  Microsoft doesn't have a history of that; 
> rather, it has a history of EEE and lock-out, and considering Windows is one 
> of their two big cash cows, I do not believe for a second that they really 
> want interoperability.  I suspect what they'd prefer is a method of forcing 
> people from Linux to Windows, but not vice-versa (they did the same thing 
> with O/S2).

Of course that's what they want.  Why does that matter?

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