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The Register: Red Hat CEO Likens Oracle to US Car Manufacturer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 21, 2006

“Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik has added his voice to
the growing stream of rebuttals to Larry Ellison’s comments about
buying Novell and ‘owning’ Linux.

“In an open letter to the Financial Times, Szulik criticized the
30-year track record of companies like Oracle in their treatment of
customers and signed off essentially saying the days of
closed-source software vendors are numbered…”

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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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