On Tuesday 24 February 2009 03:05, steve wrote: > Hi, > > jtd wrote: > > M$ and RH have signed a deal of some sort. > > > > http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/ > > > > Saving grace is that there are no weasel words as yet. > > As a (critical and reluctant) RH admirer for some time now, let me > offer the other POV. What RH has done is sign an agreement with M$ > to provide validation and support to M$ OSes when they are run > within a VM on RHEL ...and M$ has has agreed to do the same for > RHEL running withing their VM solution. That is *all* there is to > it. The emphasis on _all_ because, this deal does not include any > ^patent-protection^ clause or any exchange of 'protection money', > as was with the case of the M$-Novell deal.
I suppose we can "trust" M$ to go gaga if there is anything remotely fishy in the deal. But if M$ past history is anything to go by, RH will come to grief when they dont certify some M$ VM as RH compliant. The lawyers must be rubbing their hands with glee. Not to mention that RH will have added a substantial cost to their service trying to debug M$ VM running RH linux. And earn plenty of flak when it fails to work. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
