Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat?

Posted by timothy on Monday May 16, 2005 @06:22AM 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.

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Re:I don't think so... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-16 06:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Boy, that's a lot of addition of bold and italics to a quote just to get to " Bush administration ."
W kicked my dog.
Re:GPL? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-16 06:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Uh, no.
God, Mods, take your meds please.
Re:I don't think so... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-16 06:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Aaaah, I'm glad I own a Mac ;)
I don't see Steve Jobs kissing Bill's arse any time soon
Did I miss April 1? by syntap · 2005-05-16 06:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

this sig is my best one.