Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front. But the Linux vendor wants to limit those talks to pure interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Linux, with the goal of solving real customer problems, Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice president of engineering, told eWEEK.
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Member since:2007-02-17
Linux boasts about using open and interoperable standards not about the OS itself being interoperable. Its the standards that are interoperable, their is a difference. Anyone can use and integrate the standards, they are after all standards. MS chooses not to use already established standards instead creating their own often encumbered standards in-order to ensure that they have control of it. RedHat wants MS to use open standards MS refuses and wants REdHat to use their standards instead. Using MS' version of standards means that only a few in the community benefit (like only Novell users get "enhanced" interoperability), while RedHat is known for being an opensource company that wants its software used throughout the community, not just y RedHat users.
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2005-12-15
That is completely inaccurate.