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Is Microsoft looking to buy a Red Hat?
Jenda:
No matter how much they burn, conquer and destroy, they will never kill linux - they would first have to kill the whole community.. and since that is now prolly around 30 big ones...
noob:
i am linux mad, and i would keep linux alive until the bitter end. and i suppert M$ on the console market because the hardware is tryed and tested,, X86 and the Os is tried and tested, Win 2000. there would be less harid towards M$ if they slowed down a lot and only earned 3 billion a year.
RaZoR1394:
Well actually Red hat isn't just another distro... They have converted and provided support for a lot of companies. It would be sad if it the company got into Microsoft's hands.
noob:
if M$ does take over redhat, i think that everyone that works for redhat sould just quit and take any new technology with them. then leavs M$ with a companythat no one they epmloy can work for.
Refalm:
One post in the comments caught my attention:
--- Quote from: Yagotta B. Kidding ---Buy what?
Aside from the Red Hat brand, Microsoft wouldn't end up with anything. About a week later, some company named "Blue Stetson" would be operating in North Carolina with the former Red Hat employees and shipping the exact same software (with trademarks changed.)
Within a quarter, Blue Stetson Enterprise Linux would be up and running as a brand and customers all over the world would be lining up to cut their support over as soon as the older arrangements ran out or MS fails to deliver the goods. Hordes of application houses such as Oracle and Cadence would announce certified support for Blue Stetson Enterprise Linux.
Within a year Red Hat would be a fond memory of the dear departed, valiant (but fallen) hero in the history of Linux. And life would go on hardly missing a beat.
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