10:18 p.m.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2151908,00.asp
In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say whether his
company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing such a
patent agreement.
"I can't answer the question," he said.
10:31 p.m.
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2151908,00.asp
In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say whether his
company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing such a
patent agreement.
"I can't answer the question," he said.
I don't see how this is on topic in this. At any rate Red Hat has
already clarified it's position on both the interoperability and patent
fronts several times now.
http://www.redhat.com/promo/believe/
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1720201
http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2189545/red-hat-sets-limits-microsoft
Rahul
8:47 a.m.
If the CEO of RedHat says "I can't answer the question" than it means
that atleast something is going on between RedHat and Microsoft. and
i'm not happy about that at all. Fedora is still being "ruled" by
redhat so this doesn't affect RedHat alone but also Fedora. At this
moment i'm kinda puzzled with what to do with this.
it's fine if they make a deal with Microsoft. as long as it's NOT the
patent deal.
I as a fedora user want to know the truth about this.
Anyone in the fedora management team or (better) the redhat management
team that can give some clarification about this?
2007/6/29, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2151908,00.asp
>
> In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say whether his
> company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing such a
> patent agreement.
>
> "I can't answer the question," he said.
I don't see how this is on topic in this. At any rate Red Hat has
already clarified it's position on both the interoperability and patent
fronts several times now.
http://www.redhat.com/promo/believe/
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1720201
http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2189545/red-hat-sets-limits-microsoft
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9:16 a.m.
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:47 +0200, Mark wrote:
If the CEO of RedHat says "I can't answer the question"
than it means
that atleast something is going on between RedHat and Microsoft. and
i'm not happy about that at all. Fedora is still being "ruled" by
redhat so this doesn't affect RedHat alone but also Fedora. At this
moment i'm kinda puzzled with what to do with this.
it's fine if they make a deal with Microsoft. as long as it's NOT the
patent deal.
I as a fedora user want to know the truth about this.
Anyone in the fedora management team or (better) the redhat management
team that can give some clarification about this?
Please move this discussion elsewhere. This mailing list is for fedora
*development* discussions.
Thanks,
/B
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10:32 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:01:21 +0530,
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2151908,00.asp
>
>In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say whether his
>company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing such a
>patent agreement.
>
>"I can't answer the question," he said.
I don't see how this is on topic in this. At any rate Red Hat has
already clarified it's position on both the interoperability and patent
fronts several times now.
The article seemed to be pretty slanted as well. There was no reason given
why not making a patent deal with Microsoft should cause people to jump
to Novell. In my biased experience the comments I have seen have indicated
that people were more likely to drop SUSE for RHEL because of this rather
than the other way around.
11:59 p.m.
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> writes:
>>> In an interview with Reuters, Szulik declined to say
whether his
>>> company is now in negotiations with Microsoft over signing such a
>>> patent agreement.
>>>
>>> "I can't answer the question," he said.
>
> I don't see how this is on topic in this. At any rate Red Hat has
> already clarified it's position on both the interoperability and patent
> fronts several times now.
The article seemed to be pretty slanted as well.
What I noticed was that it did not give the exact wording of the
question that Matthew declined to answer.
I've been around Red Hat for five years now, and as far as I've seen
Matthew Szulik is as straight a shooter as you'll find in a CEO.
If he refused to answer a question, I suppose it's because there was
some aspect of it that he wished he could clear with Red Hat's legal
department; and there was nothing in that article to suggest what
it was that raised his hackles.
As for Red Hat making a separate peace with Microsoft, the OP clearly
has no clue how ridiculous an idea that is. Matthew would never do it,
and the entire engineering department would resign tomorrow if he did.
regards, tom lane
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