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[Tsuroerusu]

I would have possibly thought so also at first. I should have included the links.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ ... s_compiler

This is extremely different from what Novell is doing with Mono. GCC can already be used on Windows to compile Windows programs, making it able to simply cross-compile under GNU/Linux is not something you'd need a secret MS deal for at all, I think you are being ultra-paranoid in suspecting Red Hat would do something like this through a deal with Microsoft. If you look at the rationale on the last link you gave, you can see it says:

Benefit to Fedora

There are two primary benefits for Fedora users.

Firstly, developers who are asked to write software for Windows will no longer need to deal with Windows and all the proprietary compilers/software on top of Windows. Instead they can throw a "configure switch" and build (and test) the software without leaving Fedora.

Secondly — and this is the long term goal — it should mean that Windows users can have a greater choice of higher quality open source applications available to them. (Developers who are primarily Linux users will actually be able to produce daily builds for Windows and respond to bug reports from Windows users, so the quality will generally improve). Windows users can use these applications instead of the usual choice of closed, proprietary, expensive apps, giving them at least some freedom. Once they are used to the high quality free applications available, it will be much easier for them to switch to a fully open platform.

The GNU project started out in much the same way by providing much better quality command-line tools for proprietary platforms such as SunOS, and eventually SunOS users liked them so much they switched over to GNU on Linux.

[eddie]

The just had secret meetings, I do not think i suggested secret deals. But you never know nowadays. Enemies make strange bedfellows. If ms wanted to take over yahoo, why not redhat. you keep your fiends close and your enemies closer.