“It’s been a tough couple of months for Red Hat. Firstly
Oracle said it would sell support to Red Hat’s Linux customers and
offer its own free clone of the open-source operating system. Then
Novell signed that huge deal with Microsoft. Let’s start with
Novell/Microsoft. What do you think of that
partnership?
I’m very disappointed that Novell did it. They [Microsoft] went to
the weaker player. We would never sell off our open-source
community. You probably saw that the open-source community is
really mad…”
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