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Is Microsoft looking to buy a Red Hat?

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mc0282:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1369

heh, I guess microsoft is out there to kill again.. Microsoft  have the money to buy off this type companies.. the scary part, why they haven't done it yet?

"While Microsoft and IBM often play nice in front of the cameras, the two backstabbing 800-pound gorillas will stop at nothing to rip the rug out from under the other when the other isn

noob:
if M$ does get linux, it will become a more targetted system. also, i will go out and get a mac if they do.

Aloone_Jonez:
noob, even if Microsoft did buy Redhat they wouldn't own Linux, that's impossible they might be able to own a Linux company but no one can ever own Linux.

WMD:
I can sum up this article:

1.  Microsoft could sue Red Hat up the ass for IP infringement on (the article mentions OpenOffice).  Then, when Red Hat can't pay up, offer a buyout.  I call racketeering.

2.  If that happens, or MS aquires RH in some other way, they could just dissolve all the engineers that RH has working on the major Open Source/Free projects (there's a lot of them).  Apparently, they do enough work that Linux development would grind almost to a halt, especially in the more "boring" projects (like glibc).  Note that I'm basing this note on statements made on Slashdot by a Red Hat programmer.

noob:
i mean get access to a linux os, not own linux. they woud change a lot about it, and as RHL is popular among severs, there could be problems.

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