Red Hat: An Open Letter from Matthew Szulik | Linux Today

Red Hat: An Open Letter from Matthew Szulik

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 19, 2003

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“For over ten years, Red Hat, in collaboration with software
developers from the global open source development community, has
created innovative technologies that are accessible and affordable
to all people. With the commercial adoption of solutions based on
open source technologies by enterprises, governments, schools and
software innovators, legal challenges were expected from entities
who face economic consequence by Red Hat’s progress in delivering
competing alternative solutions.

“Since 1983, lawsuits have become all too commonplace in the
software industry. Innovators who challenged proprietary economic
models have faced threats to free enterprise throughout the history
of commerce…”

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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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