It’s amazing what happens when you step back from the trees for a view of the forest, as Doc Searls did in his post today (see Conceivable?). Wrote Searls, "When I read Microsoft-Red Hat Warming Trend on CNET, a question leaped to mind: Would Microsoft buy Red Hat? Money surely wouldn’t be a problem. PR surely would be." Yesterday, I was the one in the trees, speculating on what if anything could be implied by the fact that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik recently dined together in New York City.
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