Red Hat Chief Calls for Open Source Missionary Work

“Customers who remain only halfhearted open source converts
aren’t doing enough for Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

“At his opening keynote at the Red Hat Summit in Boston,
Whitehurst said the company needs to start preaching to its
customers to share their internally developed code with others.

“‘The vast majority of software written today is written in
enterprise and not for resale,’ he said. ‘And the vast majority of
that is never actually used. The waste in IT software development
is extraordinary…'”

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