Raleigh News & Observer: Young and The Net-Less | Linux Today

Raleigh News & Observer: Young and The Net-Less

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 26, 1999

Thanks to Mark
Turner
for this link.

Dan Barkin, a columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer, talks
about Bob Young, CEO of Red Hat Software; and the Linux movement in
general.

“Bob Young’s sitting in a fast-food restaurant in Durham,
wearing a very red baseball cap so late-arriving companions can
find him in the lunch crowd.”

“He’s alone. No hovering staffers, no driver outside. Just a
45-year-old, balding, bespectacled guy who insists “Bob Young will
never be the next Bill Gates.””

“But there sits one of the few people whose business plan can
make Gates bolt upright out of a sound slumber.”

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Story

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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