[ Thanks to Robert for this link.
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“Red Hat’s CEO has rejected the idea that a reduction in the
number of Linux distributions would be good for the industry, and
described Novell’s acquisition of SUSE Linux as ‘theatre…'”“There are over 300 distributions listed on DistroWatch.com, but
Raleigh, NorthCarolina-based Red Hat’s CEO, Matthew Szulik,
maintained that choice and specialization outweighed any advantage
that might be gained by focusing customer attention on a smaller
number of offerings…”