Re: Microsoft Courts Red Hat



taharka:
Microsoft is to form a partnership with Red Hat to improve the
interoperability of Windows and Linux, according to Tom Robertson,
Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards.

Tom Horsley:
But the only interoperability problems are always caused by
Microsoft refusing to actually obey existing RFCs. What's the
partnership going to do? Break redhat the same way microsoft
is already broken?

That, and not defining their own techniques in a manner that others
could use the information usefully, as well as continually changing
them.

It takes no special partnership between Microsoft and anyone else to
improve interoperability, all it takes is for Microsoft to stop behaving
like they currently do.

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