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Red Hat Pitching Proprietary Lock-in as “Open”

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Apr 30, 2008

[ Thanks to AlexGr
for this link. ]

“Ah, how the mighty have fallen. In what must have been gross
oversight, Red Hat is pitching proprietary software on its website
under the banner of ‘No vendor lock-in.’ The way Red Hat and IBM
make it appear, simply running one’s software on an open platform
like Linux magically removes the proprietary lock-in of the
application.

“I hate to say this, Red Hat, but it just doesn’t work that way.
Last time I checked, IBM’s Lotus Domino is proprietary software and
running it on Linux hasn’t changed that fact…”

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Matt Asay

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