Ask Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik

Red Hat has made several changes in how they run their business, notably concentrating more (perhaps one might say "entirely") on enterprise-level Linux users. Some of Red Hat's moves have upset long-time users, and many people seem to have trouble understanding exactly where Fedora fits into all this. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik has offered to answer your questions and clear things up, so ask away. Please don't ask questions he's answered in recent interviews and statements, and try -- hard though this may be for some -- to ask only one question per post. We'll forward 10 or 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Szulik tomorrow, and run his answers when he gets them back to us.

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Re:Question

[Frymaster]

Where do you want to go tomorrow?

i can answer that one for you: to linuxiso.org to get a copy of debian or freebsd or gentoo or mandrake...

Re:Upset is a understatement

[NineNine]

Gee whiz. You're mad? Well, you were the one who made the decision to base your company's infrastructure on a startup's software, now wasn't it? What in the hell did you expect? There's a reason that people gladly pay for things like W2K, Solaris, AIX, etc. You're bitching because a startup doesn't want to support your $50/machine software anymore. Wow. Sounds like you made a bad decision, and you're now trying to foist it off on Red Hat. But definitely go to an even smaller, less stable company such as Mandrake or SUSE. I predict that you'll be out on the streets looking for a job in no time.

Question

[Rickmeister]

Just three questions....
Are you really the CEO of Redhat? Really? YOU?