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Red Hat Rejects Microsoft Deals
Kurtz'sKompund passed us an article detailing another loss in Microsoft's licensing push: Red Hat has summarily rejected Redmond's offer of an alliance. The article also touches on Ubuntu's rejection of the same offer, which we discussed this past weekend. ZDNet reports on comments from Mark Shuttleworth and the Red Hat organization, with Shuttleworth stating "Allegations of 'infringement of unspecified patents' carry no weight whatsoever. We don't think they have any legal merit, and they are no incentive for us to work with Microsoft on any of the wonderful things we could do together." Red Hat was even more blunt, stating the organization refused to pay an "innovation tax" to Microsoft. "Red Hat said there would be no such deal. Referring to previous statements distancing itself from Microsoft, the company insisted: 'Red Hat's standpoint has not changed.' The company referenced a statement written when Microsoft revealed it was partnering with Novell, saying that its position remained unaltered. Red Hat director of corporate communications Leigh Day added: 'We continue to believe that open source and the innovation it represents should not be subject to an unsubstantiated tax that lacks transparency.' Many open-source followers argue that Red Hat, as the largest Linux vendor, would have a lot to lose from partnering with Microsoft."
FP FAGGOTS
You say that now, but wait until Microsoft comes back and sues the pants off idiots like RedHat and Mark Shuttleworth. If that doesn't work, they'll come after the users. RedHat is really making a mistake to both protect their users and improve their products by better integrated with Microsoft technologies. Everyone here will probably mod me down for this, but Linux without protection from litigation and proper (and well supported) integration with Microsoft technologies will deter a lot of businesses. The captcha is "insight."
With yet another stunningly bad decision, Red Hat puts the nails in its own coffin. I own a business that's all MS right now (plus certain important proprietary software). If I need to/want to introduce a Linux server one day, am I going to look at a version that has MS's blessing, and will work with my stuff, or would I look at a product that has no kind of guarantees that it'll work with my existing systems? Hmmm... Tough decision there.
Red Hat is going to lose some serious credibility down the line when/if more people have to make similar decisions. I have little to no reason to even *consider* software that is going to give me extra integration headaches, and I can't believe that I'm alone in my thinking.
I don't respond to AC's.
He is just complaining because he wants a free enterpise supported distro without paying anything for it. He thinks ubuntu is the best thing ever but hasnt realized that when shuttleworths seed money runs out Ubuntu is going to look exactly like fedora.
Now that Vista is out, and it's readily apparent that both Lunix and OSX are having more and more security holes at almost the same rate that Windows is getting less and less, it seems like hackers are now moving toward the easier targets.
It's going to be hard times for Lunix and OhitSuX. Not only are they third-tier operating systems, but their bogus claims of being uber-secure is daily being revealed as the baseless sham it always was.
Security via obscurity is not security. Sorry d00dz, game over.