Red Hat: The one true open source company? | Linux Today

Red Hat: The one true open source company?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2010

“Oracle boasts an extensive list of free and open source
software, now more than ever with its recent acquisition of Sun.
IBM is a key contributor to the Linux kernel and dozens of other
high-profile open source projects. Google has released millions of
lines of code of Android, Chrome, and GWT (Google Web Toolkit) for
public use.

“But none of the aforementioned companies nor their free
offerings would constitute open source companies, at least as
defined by Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s president of products and
technologies, in a recent interview.”


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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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