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.