LinuxInsider: Red Hat: Time for the Tar and Feathers? | Linux Today

LinuxInsider: Red Hat: Time for the Tar and Feathers?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 7, 2004

“As con men these two pitiful rascals made their living by
pretending to be what they were not, and then charging the gullible
to share the illusion. A cynic might see parallels to Red Hat here:
pretending to open source ideals while actually charging the MSCE
community for the privilege of sharing the illusion.

“The current management team at Red Hat has consistently been
vocal about its agenda. The road to Microsoft, Open Source Affairs
Vice President Michael Tieman has said many times, goes through
Mountain View first–meaning that he wants to take over the ‘Unix’
server base before taking on Microsoft’s desktop. Lately, however,
Sun has been firing back…”


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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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