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There may never be another Red Hat but that is OK
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| When you put it that way Red Hatâs success
| becomes even more remarkable. No one has to
| pay an open source software company for its
| code. If a pure open source company is only
| one that depends on voluntary code payments
| for its bread, then getting $800 million of| such
| payments a year is pretty amazing.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/there-may-never-be-another-red-hat-but-that-is-ok/6682
The open-source entrepreneur
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| Bob Young is a self-confessed contrarian with
| a strong desire to change the world by
| allowing people to share and collaborate. The
| approach has served him well and has helped
| turn the Canadian into a multi-millionaire.
|
| From the outset, his software company Red Hat
| bucked the trend set by the big players like
| Microsoft which stubbornly guarded every line
| of code and charged whopping fees to maintain
| it.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/06/the_open_source_entrepreneur.html
Recent:
There Will Be Multi-Billion Dollar Open Source Companies
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| With Benchmark's backing, Red Hat actually did
| have about a $5 billion market capitalization
| upon its IPO, and then that valuation settled
| down along with the rest of the market for
| technology companies. There will be open source-
| focused companies with multi-billion dollar
| market caps. There will be better times for
| technology companies. There will be inflated
| perceptions of technology stocks again. These
| things go in cycles, and my bet is that
| Whitehurst knows that his company stands a great
| chance of becoming a multi-billion dollar,
| public open source-focused leader.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/there-will-be-multi-billion-dollar-open-source-companies
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