Friday, July 6, 2007

Red Hat flirts with Microsoft

Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front.

But the Linux vendor wants to limit those talks to pure <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2154521,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL070507EOAD">interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Linux,</A> with the goal of solving real customer problems, Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice president of engineering, told eWEEK.

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