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Is Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished dept.

RadioheadKid writes "This article featured on eWeek asks the question 'Red Hat: Next Redmond?' It quotes an IBM VP who says, 'There is a backlash against Red Hat from many consumers and government agencies, who fear it is increasingly becoming the Microsoft of the Linux world with respect to its dominance and attitude,' while Red Hat states: 'Our commitment to open source remains absolute, no matter what our competitors are saying.' Is this just some pro-UnitedLinux spin, or a valid concern? What do you think?" Such characterizations are nothing new, but a response on NewsForge from Red Hat's Jeremy Hogan supplies a counterpoint to make the eWeek article worth reading. (Has anyone really seen a Red Hat backlash?)

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  1. Re:First post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    Travel down the road and back again
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    And if you threw a party,
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  2. What a stupid comparison by Sloppy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Timothy, you ought to be ashamed of feeding the trolls by even giving this crap a second look. It's not even a particularly clever troll; it's just noise.

    C'mon, editors, there's nothing wrong with doing a little common-sense filtering. Timothy, do you take your job seriously at all?

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    As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
  3. dominance is the natural way of life here. by kentsin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Feel the force, read the force and practice, Jedi.

    It is just a netural way for IT business or development to become : DOMINANCE!

    Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows were competing for what?

    All that standards and protocols draft and abandoned were just part of that GAME.

    It is DOMINANCE give the user the better LIFE and will give the business the better REWARD.

    Why fight against the way of life. Why not go for it and be happy?

    Learn the force, learn the force, go with it, do not fight it.