I was looking around Slashdot today and read an article regarding the rumor if MS will buy RedHat. Here is the article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=275

As David Berlind recently pointed out in his piece Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat? Microsoft could see Red Hat’s acquisition as a nice way to undermine IBM, but might not consider that a sufficient reason to do it. That, of course, is Microsoft’s perspective, but what about Red Hat’s? This is a company, remember, that wants to be Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling other people’s ideas.
While this may be a good move businesswise, it may cause the open source community to **** a brick. While this reaction is inevitable no matter how you cut it on an acquisition such as this, I was wondering what the possible outcomes would be on a buyout such as this.