[ Thanks to ski for
this link. ]
“If one were born last night, that might be a legitimate reason
to not recognize the name “Red Hat.” Otherwise, everyone should
know about this upstart software company from North Carolina. They
sell and support free software. Yes, they “sell” free software.
Actually, they sell the packaging of free software. Red Hat’s
recent IPO (Initial Public Offering) of its stock [RHAT] made quite
a showing. Making Young a billionaire. This is a good time to
mention the royalties from the book are being donated to the Free
Software Foundation.”
“The text is designed to document a new business model.
Although it is not a history treatise, it starts off with an
excellent overview of internet history from the 1968 founding of
ARPANET. Which begat DARPA which begat the “internet” as we
now know it. Red Hat, Inc. markets a distribution of a UNIX like
Operating System (OS) known as Linux. under the radar does a great
job of explaining the cosmic tumbling that started with ARPANET
that made UNIX popular that in turn made Linux possible. Rohm is
credited with doing the research to make the book an accurate
representation of the events that were reported. It is not all
inclusive and does not attempt to be so.”