Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 24, 2003 10:45 PM
"RedHat most certainly develops open source software in as major a way as it is possible to do."
No they don't. There are just a handful of people developing open source software at Redhat, not more than 50.
Redhat has stated publicly that they will never hire any significant part of the Linux developers. And they shouldn't, it's not their core business to develop software. For them to succeed it's vital that the major part of the development is unpaid, otherwise the price would have to go up a lot.
I'm not flaming Redhat or anything, they sell a complete product and do it fairly well but they are _not_ an open source company.
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Re:Tell that to IBM, Apple, RedHat, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 24, 2003 10:45 PMNo they don't. There are just a handful of people developing open source software at Redhat, not more than 50.
Redhat has stated publicly that they will never hire any significant part of the Linux developers. And they shouldn't, it's not their core business to develop software. For them to succeed it's vital that the major part of the development is unpaid, otherwise the price would have to go up a lot.
I'm not flaming Redhat or anything, they sell a complete product and do it fairly well but they are _not_ an open source company.
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