“LXF: On the Novell company blogs recently, there’s been
a lot of discussion about whether a Linux company can be ‘the next
Microsoft…’“Greg Mancusi-Ungaro: Well, Red Hat in one of
their initial prospectuses said ‘our goal is to be the Microsoft of
Linux’. Actually, that made a lot of people wince! I don’t think
that should be the goal. I think what you want to be is, in effect,
like Switzerland–you want to be the people of unquestionable
integrity. You want to be the people with the technical precision,
the people who are neutral, but who are leaders…”