“If you were to try to think of the two most diametrically opposed software companies in the industry, Red Hat and Microsoft come to mind. One is the open-source leader, while the other has tenaciously held to its proprietary software background,” Matt Asay reports for CNET.
Asay reports, “And yet, something has brought the two companies together in a manner which suggests to me that both are converging in the way they view technology: The iPhone.”
“Walk Red Hat’s Raleigh, N.C., campus and you’ll see Apple’s iPhone in the hands of an increasing number of Red Hat employees,” Asay reports. “Cross the country to Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus and you’ll see the same thing. I’ve been to both campuses in the past few months and was surprised by the number of iPhones being used.”
Asay reports, “There is, of course, a very good reason for this… Both Red Hat and Microsoft employees ultimately are consumers and care more about what works than dogmatically clinging to ‘The One True Way’ to use or sell software… It’s software, not religion. It matters, but not that much.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Time to set up some iPhone Amnesty Bins, Monkey Boy.
