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Old 17-05-2005, 06:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Microsoft to buy Red Hat ?

"Various news sources including ZDnet are today reporting that Microsoft is considering buying out Red Hat, speculating that 'Microsoft could see Red Hat's acquisition as a nice way to undermine IBM, but might not consider that a sufficient reason to do it,' adding that Red Hat is however '...a company that wants to be Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling other people's ideas.'"

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Old 17-05-2005, 12:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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hmm..... if Microsoft does buy Redhat... expect a lot of changes on the Linux scenario... considering that Redhat is one of the most popular distributors of Linux.

it seems Microsoft is really getting serious about it's competition.
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What if they stopped Linux Distribution just to beat competition because Redhat Linux is the most popular form of Linux.
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Old 17-05-2005, 12:34 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Things are just being speculated. But that would be THE BIGGEST BOOST for the Linux community, because that means M$ sees Linux as something competitive or a threat or something that could make more money for M$.
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Well .. Hmm.. Fedora wont be much affected by this buyout (if it ever happens) cauz of its open source .. But Hmm... I think there will be many complications for other licenses of Red Hat ..

Hmm.. I remember reading about Sun's possible buyout by MS too .. Wonder what happened to that ..
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Old 17-05-2005, 06:08 PM   #6 (permalink)
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What if they stopped Linux Distribution just to beat competition because Redhat Linux is the most popular form of Linux.
It won't happen.
If Microsoft buys the RH LINUX then it will only affect market for sometime then again it will back to normal as today.
It will never stop the distribution, but from MS's previous background. it will try to make more money from it..

LIke selling.. MS LINUX
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Well .. Hmm.. For BG its always been more like:
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Stop playing fair game
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Old 17-05-2005, 10:33 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Man, if it happens it ill be a bad news.
But the Effect will soon be over as RED HAT are not only distributer.
But its good to c that LINUX has started to bite M$'s @SS.

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M$ buying out Red Hat is a great news for other distro companies like Mandrake (Mandrive), SuSE, Linspire, Debian, etc. because then free software fan will think 10 times before using that product. A competitior's loss is other one's gain
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LOL! very true tux! very true! People will start wondering about security and what all spywarez MS will bundle with RedHat!!
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