SearchEnterpriseLinux: Red Hat CEO: Business of Linux Validated | Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Red Hat CEO: Business of Linux Validated

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 31, 2004

[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso
for this link. ]

In setting Red Hat’s corporate strategy, how do you
balance your responsibility to your shareholders and customers with
your responsibilities to the open source community? Is it a
difficult juggling act?

“Matthew J. Szulik: It used to be. This is all we know, unlike
some of our competitors, who may have spent a couple of bucks
recently and call themselves an open source company, when they’ve
been building proprietary software for the last 20 years. We’ve
been an open source developer for the last 11 years…”


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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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