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DesktopLinux: Red Hat Founder’s New Project Helps Fund Open Source Development

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 2, 2004

“Red Hat co-founder and former chair Bob Young is launching a
new software marketplace that allows open source developers to
publish software and fund their projects.

“Young calls his 2002 venture Lulu and describes the project as
an online publishing tool for independent authors and publishers.
Lulu’s newest software marketplaces focus on open source
technologies. Beginning immediately Lulu is accepting pre-orders
for the latest version of OpenOffice.org and Red Hat-sponsored
Fedora Core 3…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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