news.cnet.com — For years Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge its patent portfolio has a precursor to interoperability discussions. Today, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization.
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eseven73Feb 17, 2009
I was going to say the same thing! As much as I like Ubuntu, I'm afraid Ubuntu is next... given how popular Ubuntu is I'm sure M$ would just love to figure out a way to bring Ubuntu to it's knees.
absolut1983Feb 17, 2009
Shame on them.RH laughed at Novell when they opened their legs to MS.
jakswaFeb 18, 2009
dugg! noobuntu for the epic win! invite your friends!
xeroxenithFeb 18, 2009
And no, RH and Novell are not all about profit. Though, as corporations, they do need to break even to stay in business, they make a huge amount of contributions upstream between them, which helps every aspect of GNU/Linux.Microsoft, on the other hand... yeah, they're all about profit. Windows 7 is coming out nice though.
jman82sFeb 18, 2009
The "patent-free" part makes it sound like it could be a good thing.However, I'd still feel like a dog taking a treat from a stranger.