Red Hat and Microsoft?

[Cristatus]

I was reading Slashdot, and found today's article interesting, yet funny. Why would Microsoft buy Red Hat?

An anonymous reader writes "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.'" That description seems to miss the key point that Red Hat releases the software they package and sell as Free software, and that both companies pay coders to create and improve software in the first place.

Not sure how old this news is, but that's what I read.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Even the Bush admin Justice Department would not let MS buy the most successful linux server software vendor. Not going to happen.