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Could Microsoft Buy Red Hat?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Over my dead body! by Bananatree3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How DARE Microsoft think they can take down Red Hat?!?

  2. Re:Pot, Kettle, Red by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Starting Score: 1 point
    Moderation -1
    100% Troll

    Pure TrollMod, suppressing a post the TrollMod doesn't like, rather than replying with a counterpoint.

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