Microsoft Courts Red Hat
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Feb 21 23:54:43 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, alan wrote:
> >On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:41:15 -0500
> >>
> >> taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> >>> Microsoft is to form a partnership with Red Hat to improve the
> >>> interoperability of Windows and Linux, according to Tom Robertson,
> >>> Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards.
> >>
> >> But the only interoperability problems are always caused by
> >> Microsoft refusing to actually obey existing RFCs. What's the
> >> partnership going to do? Break redhat the same way microsoft
> >> is already broken?
> >
> >I suspect it is an attempt to trick them into violating some hidden IP
> >landmine.
> >
> >I don't truct Micorsoft as far as I can throw Balmer.
> >
> With, or without his chair? The chair might be an advantage as it would
> offer a firmer grip...
And you wouldn't need to touch "Jabba the Hutt" Balmer. The amount of
slime oozed by any Microsoft executive automatically requires a full
hazmat suit to get within 100 meters of them, and that will restrict
your throwing motion.
>
> >--
> >"Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains
> > nothing." - University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
> message by Gene Heskett are:
> Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>
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