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Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the awesome-alliteration dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has hit out at enterprises, bemoaning that billions of dollars are wasted each year because 95% of companies won't share code. Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, he said his company must take a larger role in urging enterprises to participate in open source projects and, in some cases, coax code contributions out of companies that have made in-house improvements. He now feels Red Hat should lead the way 'It should be part of Red Hat's job to define development in a new way, and get companies to work together' on shared projects, he said. The joint development projects would be designed to cover non-competitive parts of an industry, with individual companies still focused on their own competitive business applications."

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  1. Cable code? by robipilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    My first read of the title was WHAT? Code for coaxial cable? Me no get it.

    1. Re:Cable code? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, well, I'm urging all companies to cat-5 their code, that's gotta be better then coaxing it.

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  2. No Thank You by Hyppy · · Score: 2, Funny

    After seeing the absolute filth that is spewed out of most corporations' in-house "development" teams, I'd be very wary of this.

  3. Re:coax yes coerce no by Hatta · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't rape the willing.

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