Opening the door to interoperability
Should open source developers feel uneasy about the recent deal struck by Microsoft and Novell to make their operating systems work with each other?
At the beginning of November, Microsoft and Novell signed a groundbreaking agreement to work together to make their respective operating systems and products more compatible with each other.
The long-term deal also brings the open source and proprietary software communities together in what has proved to be an explosive union, with free and open source software developers criticising Novell for getting into Microsoft's proprietary bed.
Bill Hilf, Microsoft general manager of platform strategy and head of the firm's Linux labs, and Roger Levy, Novell's vice-president for open platform solutions, spoke to Computer Weekly about how the alliance will benefit users.
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