Microsoft closes another deal, is redhat next?

[Tim]

Kelly:
>> I'd agree, except for the identity of the company proposing
>> "interoperability".  Microsoft doesn't have a history of that; 
>> rather, it has a history of EEE and lock-out, and considering Windows
>> is one of their two big cash cows, I do not believe for a second that
>> they really want interoperability.  I suspect what they'd prefer is a
>> method of forcing people from Linux to Windows, but not vice-versa
>> (they did the same thing with O/S2).

Les Mikesell:
> Of course that's what they want.  Why does that matter?

Just so long as they don't succeed (at the "forcing," or just continuing
to make life very difficult for everyone else).

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