“Red Hat CEO Bob Young has dumped a bucket of cold water on
yesterday’s claims that the company us doing a Microsoft by taking
Red Hat Linux proprietary. According to Young, the spat was
triggered by Amazon, rather than by any move on Red Hat’s
part.”
“Last week, he says, Amazon contacted Red Hat saying that it had
been getting complaints from customers who’d bought Linux through
its action site under the impression it was Linux from Red Hat.
‘Thesee products turned out to be CD-ROMs that consisted of free
FTP downloads of Red Hat Linux, produced by independent
vendors.'”