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Raleigh News & Observer: Young and The Net-Less

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.”

Complete
Story

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