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In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue

Posted by timothy on from the flash-in-the-pan-I-tell-you dept.

head_dunce writes "Now that Red Hat has officially posted more than a billion dollars in revenue, ($1.13 billion to be exact), the company's PR department sent this funny list of quotes predicting doom. For instance, 'We think of Linux as a competitor in the student and hobbyist market but I really don't think in the commercial market we'll see it in any significant way.' Bill Gates, 2001."

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  1. A Billion Thanks to the Open Source Community from by GioMac · · Score: 5, Informative

    Trending: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/3/A-billion-thanks-to-the-open-source-community-from-Red-Hat?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

    Thanks to both RedHat and OpenSource communities!

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  2. Red Hat also announced some donations by Red+Storm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Red Hat also announced that they will be donating $100,000 to each of the following organizations; Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and UNICEF Innovation Labs. http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/3/A-billion-thanks-to-the-open-source-community-from-Red-Hat

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