Microsoft Back In Bed With SUSE Linux

[w1z4rd]

Microsoft on Monday said it agreed to extend by four years a controversial deal under which it resells SUSE Linux services to business customers and pledges not to sue those customers, or SUSE, for patent infringement.

Microsoft has long held that Linux violates its patents on parts of the Windows operating system, a claim rejected by advocates for the open source and free software communities. One such group, the Free Software Foundation, told InformationWeek that it plans to investigate whether Microsoft's new deal with SUSE violates open source licensing terms.

Under the renewed agreement, Microsoft is committed to purchasing $100 million worth of SUSE Linux certificates through 2015. Microsoft and SUSE also will work together to build and market software and services that combine Windows and Linux technology.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/opensource/231002610

I hope one day we get to see Microsoft Linux. I really think it would be the best for both worlds. Microsoft get a good stable platform to run their propriety applications, and linux gets more microsoft support to its code base.

 

[|tera|]

That would be cool. I agree with you

 

[murraybiscuit]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/opensource/231002610

I hope one day we get to see Microsoft Linux. I really think it would be the best for both worlds. Microsoft get a good stable platform to run their propriety applications, and linux gets more microsoft support to its code base.

I'm pretty sure they tried that once.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

On the one hand I agree with you - as it'll make things more easier for us to get Linux and M$ to run alongside without any hassles.

On the other I'm wary of M$ weaving proprietary code into Linux then sue world+dog for using said code without permission...

 

[w1z4rd]

On the other I'm wary of M$ weaving proprietary code into Linux then sue world+dog for using said code without permission...

It would be business as usual then

Did you know that microsoft are the 7th largest contribute to the 3.0 linux kernel?

http://www.osnews.com/story/24960

 

[The_Unbeliever]

It would be business as usual then

Did you know that microsoft are the 7th largest contribute to the 3.0 linux kernel?

http://www.osnews.com/story/24960

Now that's scary.

Do they program backdoors into the kernel so that Bill Gates can crash a million Linux kernels all over the world with just the press of a button?

 

[w1z4rd]

Now that's scary.

Do they program backdoors into the kernel so that Bill Gates can crash a million Linux kernels all over the world with just the press of a button?

Naah, theyre doing it to improve virtualization of Linux on MS systems

The code is open source, they cant sneak in anything.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Naah, theyre doing it to improve virtualization of Linux on MS systems

Ahhh.

I'd rather have a mongo Linux server running virtualized copies of M$ whatever than the other way round. Quicker to recover should a nasty trojan/virus target one of your virtual M$ PC's and bring it down hard.

 

[Elimentals]

Microsoft only buy so many for resale to hid the fact that they are using SuSE in house.

If they didn't sell SuSE people would pick up they they using support and buying licenses for use in house and that would do more damage than pretending to sell Linux.

 

[bekdik]

I'm pretty sure they tried that once.

Dunno about Linux, but they did it with Unix - Xenix was the product.