Microsoft and Red Hat Continue Partnership Dance

Published: Jul 16, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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Intellectual property may be off the table, for now, but it sure seems like Red Hat and Microsoft are still dancing around coming to some kind of partnership relationship.

In a recent eWEEK news story by Peter Galli, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsofts vice president of intellectual property and licensing, said, “Red Hat and Microsoft have previously had conversations about interoperability, but none of our recent conversations have included discussions about intellectual property cooperation.”

Ah! Notice the start of the last phrase, “none of our recent conversations.” So, they are still talking.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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