Yes, but there is more to it than that. When a company sells stock anyone can buy it. Read another way, people who don't necessarily care about (or even agree with) the principles of free software can buy stock. And stockholders have some pretty hefty influences on a company - after all, they own it. By reserving some stock for people they think are part of the linux community, RedHat limits their risk of stockholder influence that would be considered 'evil' by the community. They even get PR points in the process - and it doesn't really cost them anything.
Having said that, not everybody they offer a slice to will get all that they want. They have a fixed number of shares that will be randomly assigned in blocks of 100 shares if demand exceeds supply.
Slashdot Mirror
However, ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/X11/gnome has mirror of the Gnome stuff, as well as some of the other bits that twoguys.org was mirroring. Please be gentle. :)
Yes, but there is more to it than that. When a company sells stock anyone can buy it. Read another way, people who don't necessarily care about (or even agree with) the principles of free software can buy stock. And stockholders have some pretty hefty influences on a company - after all, they own it. By reserving some stock for people they think are part of the linux community, RedHat limits their risk of stockholder influence that would be considered 'evil' by the community. They even get PR points in the process - and it doesn't really cost them anything.
Having said that, not everybody they offer a slice to will get all that they want. They have a fixed number of shares that will be randomly assigned in blocks of 100 shares if demand exceeds supply.