Put this one in the strange bedfellows department: Red Hat(s rhat), the company known for its supported enterprise Linux,  is now working with its chief clone, CentOS. Since CentOS is seen as a free option to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in many businesses and Red Hat threatened legal action against CentOS in the past, last week’s news raised some eyebrows.

Since I tend to see things through the cloud lens, this seems to me that Red Hat has bigger fish to fry than server operating systems. It is trying very hard to be seen as a leader in the OpenStack community and in Platform as a Service (PaaS) with its OpenShift effort. So maybe plain ol’ Linux is just table stakes now

And that context makes the CentOS news even more interesting. A Wired post headlined Hell freezes over in Linux Land reminded everyone of Red Hat’s litigious…