Microsoft appoints director of Linux interoperability

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Microsoft has appointed Tom Hanrahan as director of Linux interoperability.

Hanrahan will head up the new Microsoft-Novell Interoperability Lab, a development facility to let the two vendors test their software products to ensure interoperability, a Microsoft spokesperson said.

The lab was first announced in October as part of the intellectual property, marketing and interoperability partnership signed between the two vendors.

Hanrahan previously worked as a director of engineering with the Open Source Development Labs and its successor organisation The Linux Foundation, which employs Linux inventor Linus Torvalds.

Does this mean they aren't trying to take over Linux or just another step in its acquisition of linux ... 

work it out for yourselves

http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=83500&src=site-marq

[Rock001]

Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros on June 4 signed a broad set of collaboration and patent agreements that reminded many of the November 2006 Microsoft/Novell partnership. What do analysts and other Linux vendors think this new deal means for Linux?

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While the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has tried to block such patent deals with the latest version of the GPLv3, Microsoft and Xandros didn't let that legal objective stop them.

Now that the deal is in place, the question is, "What to make of it?"

slowly aquiring linux or just making it easier for linux to run M$ programs?

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4862361523.html