Red Hat's Open Source Community Trick | Linux Today

Red Hat’s Open Source Community Trick

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 24, 2008

“I think one of the new genial tricks of late being employed by
Red Hat to great effect is the following:

  1. “Select a good open source developer, respected in the
    community but not affiliated with any Linux distributor
    company;
  2. “Secretly talk to the guy and offer him a job at RedHat in some
    months, but he has to agree to start an open source project doing
    this and that…”


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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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