Thanks to Ross Nesbitt for
this link.
This is from Compaq’s website, and is dated December 1st.
“One of the big announcements at the recent ISPCon concerned the
investment by Intel, Netscape and a handful of venture capitalists
in Red Hat, a Linux software packager based in North Carolina. The
move is one more sign of the rising tide behind Linux, the
increasingly popular UNIX-based operating system that is available
over the Internet as freeware or shareware.”
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