Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought?

head_dunce writes "It seems that this economy has inspired a lot of businesses to move to Linux, with Red Hat posting profits that beat everyone's expectations. There's a dark side to being a highly profitable company in a down economy, though — now there are talks of Citigroup and Oracle wanting to buy Red Hat. For a while now, we've been watching Yahoo fend off Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer so that they could stay independent, but the fight seems to be a huge distraction for Yahoo, with lots of energy (and money) invested. Will Red Hat stay independent? What potential buyer would make for a good parent company?"

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Re:Further comment: A note about "Ruthie".

[Daengbo]

Well, in addition to your post's basic premise being a little over the top, you're completely wrong on your analysis of Thai: one syllable names show nothing. In fact, traditional Thais normally have relatively short names (e.g. Kao Klai, a K-1 fighter), yet they _still_ take nicknames. Thais generally use their nicknames, like "Nok," throughout their adult lives, even if they are movie stars or university professors. The use of the full given name is really rather rare unless it's used for identification purposes (i.e. in a news article).

Thais generally use repetition (lek lek), alliteration (sum sarm), or rhyming (reuay beuay) to create a diminutive, though these can also be used to create flowery language in an article, a song, or a poem.