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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 11:27 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> Executive offers peek under the Red Hat
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>>| I was the first Massachusetts employee - early 2001. At
>>| the time we were a completely retail, boxed product. We
>>| decided that there was a need to bring Linux to the [business]
>>| enterprise, to make Linux enterprise-class. I did a job fair up
>>| here. I had 1,500 people show up, 400 of which had some kind of
>>| kernel expertise. I did job fairs in other parts of the country,
>>| and I would get one or two.
>> `----
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>> http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-03/business/29733587_1_open-source-red-hat-linux
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> "I also have an operation in Silicon Valley. They're big in social
> networking, the Googles, that kind of thing. What Massachusetts was
> always good at is commercial-grade enterprise software. We run the New
> York Stock Exchange, we run all of the investment banks, we run airlines,
> we run most of the movie studios."
>
> And on Novell:
>
> It's a travesty. An absolute travesty. Customers were starting to
> want open source. So they'd come in with open source and [Novell
> would] try to switch them to the stuff that wasn't open source. I
> think that was one of the nails in the coffin. And I also think cozying
> up to Microsoft. The Linux community felt sold out. It hurt their
> credibillity [sic] with the Linux community.
Yes, I too played a role in the opposition. Novell is history now.
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~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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