“This commentary is a followup to “Corel CEO shills for
stock by loving Linux,” which ran December 18 on
Redherring.com.“
“Whoah, it got chilly in here on Monday. Lots of vitriol
directed to the Corel article and to Redherring.com’s Investor
editor (me) in general.”
“There’s something I’ve missed in all this. I understand that
people support their operating system of choice, that open source
has very tangible benefits in terms of quality control and speed of
development. The column never said anything in contradiction to
this. I say, choose the OS you’d like to use, and may open source
and Linux prevail. But please don’t mandate that everybody buy the
stock of the corporation of your choice so that certain individuals
can benefit financially from a software movement that purports to
be free of greed.”