The Secret to Red Hat's Billion-Dollar Success: Everyone's The Boss | Linux Today

The Secret to Red Hat’s Billion-Dollar Success: Everyone’s The Boss

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 8, 2012

“Red Hat is nothing like the military where she served as is an
Air Force captain, she says. So it’s not like the military
structures of most big corporations where the bosses rule and the
employees follow orders or find the door.

Because Red Hat is a pure open source company, its culture is
something between a democracy and a commune. This comes from the
nature of open source, where writing software is always a
collaboration.


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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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