[ale] Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat?

[Randal Jarrett]

From: /.

Linux: Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat?	

	
Posted by timothy on Monday May 16, @02:22PM
from the sure-they-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Various news sources including ZDnet are
today reporting that Microsoft is considering buying out Red Hat,
speculating that 'Microsoft could see Red Hat's acquisition as a nice
way to undermine IBM, but might not consider that a sufficient reason to
do it,' adding that Red Hat is however '...a company that wants to be
Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling
other people's ideas.'" That description seems to miss the key point
that Red Hat releases the software they package and sell as Free
software, and that both companies pay coders to create and improve
software in the first place.

http://www.whitedust.net/speaks/510/

Randy

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