Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up On Virtualization 168
mjasay writes "For years Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge its patent portfolio as a precursor to interoperability discussions. Today, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization. The nuts-and-bolts of the agreement are somewhat pedantic, providing for Red Hat to validate Windows Server guests to be supported on Red Hat Enterprise virtualization technologies, and other technical support details. But the real crux of the agreement is what isn't there: patents. Red Hat has long held that open standards and open APIs are the key to interoperability, even as Microsoft insisted patents play a critical role in working together, and got Novell to buy in. Today, Red Hat's vision seems to have won out with an interoperability deal heavy on technical integration and light on lawyers."
Re:It is a good sign (Score:4, Funny)
another step forward for Open Source and a sign that Microsoft can adapt.
That's no moon!
Re:This has got to be bad. (Score:3, Funny)
Don't worry... satan will not let this work, he doesn't do cold.
Or to quote Woody Allen (Score:5, Funny)
"The lion and the lamb will lay down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep."
Re:It is a good sign (Score:2, Funny)
Assuming that Moonlight is the Death Star...
Good point!
Re:It is a good sign (Score:5, Funny)
I've since gotten comfortable enough that its now linux on linux.
LOL action :D
Microsoft creates one to destroy it (Score:1, Funny)
You obviously don't know your tech history. Don't you know there used to be a demi-god name Sauron that forged rings of power and gave them to the peoples of Middle-Earth? Yet, in secret, he forged One Great Ring to rule them all...and in the darkness, bind them.