Je ne sais pas pourquoi le blog de Clémentine exhibe deux merveilleuses cerises, car (à ma connaissance) elle n’a pas de liaisons avec la maison d’édition Le Temps des Cerises (pas mal, elle non plus), m’enfin, ce n’est pas le sujet de mon billet.

Dans sa dernière chronique sur France Culture, Du pouvoir vivre, on entend Clémentine faire cette énumération :

Nous y sommes plus que jamais, en pleine crise économique, écologique, sociale et démocratique. Une crise politique en somme.

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Once again, I couldn’t make it for the morning. I’m at the 4th coffee and still not very impetuous in concluding this post. Oh well…

Donald Trump’s Casino Company Files For Bankruptcy. That was part of the good news for today

The open-software world is ecstatic with regards to an interoperability agreement a major Linux player just signed with Microsoft, this time with no attached strings, no patent deals, no cross payments, no anything (at least, this is the official version so far). Official: Red Hat and Microsoft Expand Server Virtualization Interoperability. OSNews: Microsoft, Red Hat Team up on Patent-Free Interoperability. ITWire (Sam Varghese):  Red Hat deal a kick in the guts for Novell. CNET (Matt Asay): Microsoft, Red Hat team up on patent-free interoperability. Slashdot: Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up On Virtualization.

It’s all about “validating” Windows Server 2k3 sp2, 2k sp4 and 2k8 guests on RHEL 5.2/5.3, and RHEL 5.2/5.3 guests on Microsoft’s Hyper-V editions.

When comes to the public, I’m not sure I understand what’s the whole excitement about. That Red Hat needed (or wanted) to make a technical deal with Microsoft (it’s only business, babe), and that they managed to do it without the compromises made by Novell in the past?

It’s like saying: “I needed (wanted?) to go to a famous but evil gynecologist, and I managed not to let him screw me, nor to indulge myself into asking him to screw me.” Right, so Red Hat was virtuous. What else?
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