Redhat would effectively become a Microsoft owned company and would Microsoft not then have cart blanch to appoint their own managers and control the future direction of Redhat Linux?
I don't see the problem here. IMO, RedHat is moving more towards profit and publicity every day. Although great for personal gain it might not be so good for the future of GPL. Corporations are only investing in RedHat so they can eventually buy it up. Widespread distribution (read: popularity) is not always good. ie: what happened to the bbs scene between 93-95 when all the kids got modems for christmas. err, nevermind.
From the article: "and Red Hat, currently the most popular seller of the Unix-like operating system." Perhaps that says everything about the future of this 'industry'. People are losing sight of the principles that inclined them to choose linux in the first place.
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Redhat would effectively become a Microsoft owned company and would Microsoft not then have cart blanch to appoint their own managers and control the future direction of Redhat Linux?
I don't see the problem here. IMO, RedHat is moving more towards profit and publicity every day. Although great for personal gain it might not be so good for the future of GPL. Corporations are only investing in RedHat so they can eventually buy it up. Widespread distribution (read: popularity) is not always good. ie: what happened to the bbs scene between 93-95 when all the kids got modems for christmas. err, nevermind.
From the article: "and Red Hat, currently the most popular seller of the Unix-like operating system."
Perhaps that says everything about the future of this 'industry'. People are losing sight of the principles that
inclined them to choose linux in the first place.
Regarding the relevance of some of these comments to the original article, "I have no legs."