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by jacobgorm 267 days ago
KVM was launched before Citrix acquired XenSource. But Redhat had also tried to acquire XenSource and threatened its founders that if they did not come along Redhat would “rip off their heads and shit down the hole”, because “Redhat was the only company allowed to make money off open source”. In that light it made sense for Redhat to back a competitor to Xen.