Did Red Hat Just Spend $250 Million on Free Software? | Linux Today

Did Red Hat Just Spend $250 Million on Free Software?

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Christine Hall
Feb 2, 2018

These new teams of employees, which includes CoreOS’s founder and CEO Alex Polvi and CTO Brandon Philips, will be doing some of the heavy lifting as the technology they developed is rolled into Red Hat brands. They will continue to work out of CoreOS offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Berlin.

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