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The Register: ‘Red Hat Wraps Linux in Sh*t,’ Says New Exec

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 11, 2006

“With the sale of his company JBoss to Red Hat, Marc Fleury will
be going to work for an open source pretender that has never done
much in the way of innovation. Or, at least that’s what Fleury used
to think.

“An archived blog post from September of 2004 reveals Fleury’s
candid opinion of Red Hat. You will, however, struggle to find
Fleury’s writings as Red Hat and JBoss have tried to erase the
comments from the internet’s memory. Luckily, we’re here to help
with a cached image…”

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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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