Microsoft Courts Red Hat

[Ingemar Nilsson]

lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> writes:

>  I would firmly doubt that RH would make a deal of such a nature with 
> Microsoft, but I can always be wrong. I was using suse and Fedora at the time 
> the Novell deal was announced. I quickly dropped suse and will do the same if 
> such a deal would occur. I cannot see any positive effects on Fedora which is 
> my current distro of choice.

I'd say that it would be fine with me if they did a pure
interoperability/virtualization deal. A patent deal is an entirely
different matter, and Red Hat have officially stated that they will not
enter such a deal with Microsoft.

Regards
Ingemar