Microsoft: No IP Talks with Red Hat

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 17, 2007 6:43 PM EDT
eWeek; By Peter Galli
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Microsoft and Red Hat are no closer to a deal involving intellectual property cooperation, Microsoft has confirmed. This effectively puts to rest—for now—the speculation that the rival operating system vendors might actually be talking about a deal that includes some kind of intellectual property provision and/or patent covenant. Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice president of engineering, told eWEEK that the company is still willing to work with the Redmond, Wash., software maker on the interoperability front, but that it wants to limit those talks to pure interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Linux, with the goal of solving real customer problems.

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