Red Hat, Novell, Microsoft new bed partners!

I have been looking for more info on the new deal Red Hat has signed with Microsoft. So far it seems to be an interoperabilty agreement concerning the two companies Virtualization offerings. After reading further in to the news concerning the deal there seems to be a coming together of Novell, Red Hat, Citrix and Microsoft to squash VMWare. I’m not sure that an opensource leader as Red Hat calls itself, should be participating in preditory business tactics. I do not think it is a coincidencec that all parties involved in the lynching are making announcements for their new offerings and colaberation to seemingly take attention from the VMWare conference happening in Europe.

I believe that this type of business ethic is the exact thing that keeps opensource and Linux fighting for deserved attention and adoption by regular companies and users (that being Microsoft and other proprietary companies not competing on technological terms but FUD and other predatory scare tactics toward free software)

My main point is that OPen Source and Free Software can win on its superiority and innovation coming from our methadoligies and open development practices. We should not resort to “win at any cost- deal with the devil” tactics.

This sort of made my decision as to what community I will be contributing to and hope that the Ubuntu community and Mark Shuttleworth continue to avoid making a deal with the devil (MSFT). I don’t think we need anymore money hungry corporations making deals with Microsoft for financial security or gain (Novell). It only serves the IP accusations still made by Ballmer to this day.

Just my two cents