Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Microsoft: not really buddies

If you keep abreast of technology news (and we know you do!) then you've surely been following the latest chapter of the Microsoft vs. Linux struggle, wherein Microsoft gets Novell, Linspire and Xandros to put pen to paper on shadowy and vaguely suspicious agreements concerning "interoperability" and "indemnification", more than likely stemming from the 235 undisclosed patents Redmond claims Linux infringes upon. While some have bent to the will of Ballmer and Co., Red Hat and Canonical (makers of Ubuntu) are holding their ground. Red Hat says it will not pay "innovation tax" to Microsoft, while Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth more poetically describes the aforementioned deals as, "Trinkets in exchange for air kisses." As far as we can tell, that's the kind of talk that immediately precedes a bar brawl.

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[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2007 10:52PM]

Then let the war begin...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 3:46AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHyqwi-gFso

wideo is the future!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2007 10:59PM]

Que the Star Wars Imperial March.
Who knows? Maybe Micro$oft will be like SCO and Canonical and RedHat will be like IBM.

[Andir Posted Jun 20th 2007 10:49PM]

Understanding the Microsoft-SCO connection
http://www.linux.com/articles/29502

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2007 10:59PM]

Que the Star Wars Imperial March.
Who knows? Maybe Micro$oft will be like SCO and Canonical and RedHat will be like IBM.

[JeremyBenthem Posted Jun 19th 2007 11:27PM]

While we mention Canonical's free Linux distro, Ubuntu, we should also note that Red Hat's competing free Linux project is Fedora Core (however, now just Fedora 7)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2007 11:29PM]

The last two remaining MS Machines in my house are going 100% Ubuntu tonight. Big Props to Ubuntu and Red Hat for sticking to their Guns.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 12:18AM]

I wish Adobe would step up to the plate and make their software available for Linux users
That wouldn't be to much of a leap from osX to Linux

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 1:48AM]

Do we really want to be buying software for linux? Isnt half the fun having your buddies watch in amazement while you "sudo apt-get install gimp-data". I doubt Adobe will ever make software for Linux until we start seeing a good turnover of linux in Corporate America then and only then will it start tricking over to publishing houses.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 21st 2007 4:47AM]

I would gladdly pay for adobe products that run on linux.
Just because it runs on linux doesn't mean it has to be free, or even even that the source has to be open.

[ethana2 Posted Jun 24th 2007 3:30AM]

Sorry, I would almost like to see proprietary software go away, kind of in one swift motion- it's not just about the OS.

I love my inkscape and gimp, and, um- I think Adobe knows it. So I really don't care what they do. Flash is on it's way out, too- silverlight is an open standard, and we will have a complete OSS implementation within the month. I just don't think, in this day and age, that proprietary software models are, well, innovative. We aren't driven by competition any more- we're driven by wanting features- 'cause the people who make programs like inkscape use them, and they know what they want.

In the case where something new does come out of recent proprietary software, I say that all the people who don't have access to it because of money, and don't know about the OSS alternatives- well- it's not worth it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 12:18AM]

If the old Microsoft & Netscape battle is any clue into the legal system, It would take MS 10 years to go to court against Linux.
By then Linux would be on so many machines world wide, what would MS be able to do?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2007 11:57PM]

mark shuttleworth comes from space D:

been using ubuntu for a solid couple years now, i'd recommend it to anybody.

[linuxamp Posted Jun 20th 2007 12:09AM]

Been using CentOS (RHEL based) on my servers for years. Been bouncing around with various desktop Linux and never really settled on a favorite. Since trying Feisty Fawn a few weeks ago I've been sold. Still keeping XP on a virtual machine for emergencies.

[zx3junglist Posted Jun 20th 2007 4:30AM]

uh, ok? offtopic much?

I feel like every time Linux is mentioned in a news story, people come out of the woodwork like "Hey, I got DweebOS 0.014c running stable on my ..."

please pardon the rant, it's really not supposed to be a personal attack

[Draper Posted Jun 20th 2007 1:11AM]

"Trinkets in exchange for air kisses"

This is part of the spirit that makes Ubuntu great!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 2:59AM]

"Trinkets in exchange for air kisses"

Mark Shuttleworth is my hero!

[Taylor Tay Posted Jun 20th 2007 2:45AM]

I tried Ubuntu on my new PC and it turns out my mobo's network card hasn't been reverse-engineered yet. That's the problem with Linux - since the real parts manafacturers wouldn't get any returns for making Linux drivers, they don't. So, I use Windows (even Vista, gasp!) on my PC and OS X on my Mac.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 20th 2007 2:49AM]

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!

[jowee26 Posted Jun 20th 2007 10:49AM]

@ spades
I work for a national retailer in the US and am proud to say we use red hat on over 10k PCs, just wish more companies would do the same