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“Wednesday’s initial public offering by Red Hat Inc., the
leading distributor of the free Linux computer operating system,
saw the new shares more than triple in price by the close of
trading on the Nasdaq.”
“It also touched off excitement and some soul searching among
the 12,000 Linux devotees assembled here for the LinuxWorld
Expo.”
“Industry analysts said the market’s eager embrace of Red Hat
indicated a belief in the potential for a free operating system to
be a commercial competitor to the Microsoft Corporation’s Windows
NT or traditional commercial versions of Unix.”
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