More than a "beginning of the year" coincidence, I would also consider RedHat's (fairly) recent move toward a very specific market (servers). It seems they're trying to possibly focus their efforts more, and along the way have a few "give-aways" that could be nothing but good publicity.
One of the many driving forces in Japan to develop Linux is to encourage it's use over pirated copies of Microsoft. Why? So they may join various international organizations. I highly doubt they'll attack piracy by violating a different EULA (the GPL). Of course, one of the other major reasons for their (and any other nation for that matter) interest is to sprout local economy from software development instead of relying on various monopolies to supply their systems (after having a majority of the code outsourced from from their own country). It's all about retaining that value! Economically speaking, they have an aweful lot to gain, not only from the jobs it will supply but from also gaining better international acceptance. We'll see if this turns out as well as their trip to space/building of dams/etc. Always going big...
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Yeah, I'm in Pullman too (lovely place in the summer, egh?). I get the great privilege to visit the Spokane airport on Thursday.
He's obviously burninating across the land...
Microsoft will probably get this patent and go on to sue anyone using the technology out of existence.
Translation:
They're "innovating"
More than a "beginning of the year" coincidence, I would also consider RedHat's (fairly) recent move toward a very specific market (servers). It seems they're trying to possibly focus their efforts more, and along the way have a few "give-aways" that could be nothing but good publicity.
One of the many driving forces in Japan to develop Linux is to encourage it's use over pirated copies of Microsoft. Why? So they may join various international organizations. I highly doubt they'll attack piracy by violating a different EULA (the GPL).
Of course, one of the other major reasons for their (and any other nation for that matter) interest is to sprout local economy from software development instead of relying on various monopolies to supply their systems (after having a majority of the code outsourced from from their own country). It's all about retaining that value!
Economically speaking, they have an aweful lot to gain, not only from the jobs it will supply but from also gaining better international acceptance. We'll see if this turns out as well as their trip to space/building of dams/etc. Always going big...