Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

Posted Nov 7, 2006 16:18 UTC (Tue) by job (subscriber, #670)
Parent article: Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

The person who wrote this has absolutely zero clue about how this market works.

First, you buy Red Hat support because they employ the programmers that make it work. Oracle do not. It is wonderful for the whole Linux market that Oracle now is in it. But the fact that it is the Red Hat distribution they support is something that is good, not bad, for Red Hat.

Second, how will SuSE paying Microsoft royalties hurt Red Hat? It will help them, because one of their major competitors is now hurt because of an uncertain future, as deliberately holding back "intellectual property" is fundamentally incompatible with distributing Linux.

After these two events it is my prediction that Red Hat is left stronger than ever in the marketplace. And I say that as someone who do not even use their products.

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