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Is free the new pay?
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| Matthew Szulik runs a successful business that gives its products away for
| free.
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| What is more, Mr Szulik was recently named the United States Entrepreneur of
| the Year.
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| The company he works for - Red Hat - turns a profit by distributing free,
| open source software; computer programs and applications that anyone can
| download.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8178929.stm
Red Hat's POSSE introduces academics to FOSS
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| Recently, five college professors spent an intense five days with Red Hat
| employees and other members of the free and open source software (FOSS)
| community. Red Hat called the experience POSSE (Professors' Open Source
| Summer Experience). The goal of the week was to show how FOSS could be used
| in post-secondary education, and to create a community to further the goal.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Features/Red-Hat-s-POSSE-introduces-academics-to-FOSS
Recent:
Global Business - Hat's off to Red Hat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p003r602/Global_Business_Hats_off_to_Red_Hat/
Red Hat educates profs
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| Red Hat is sowing the seeds of open source software development among college
| professors.
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| This week a fourth-floor meeting room at the company's Centennial Campus
| headquarters in Raleigh is the site of a boot camp for faculty from a
| half-dozen universities, including N.C. Central and Elon. It's a prototype
| for a program whose ultimate goal is to immerse computer science students in
| real-world open-source development projects.
|
| [...]
|
| Red Hat, which is poised to join the Standard & Poor's 500 index after the
| market closes today, makes its money by bundling Linux with various levels of
| support services.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1619353.html
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