[vox] Red Hot Red Hat

timriley at appahost.com timriley at appahost.com
Thu Mar 29 10:09:43 PDT 2012


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [vox] Red Hot Red Hat
> From: Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com>
> Date: Thu, March 29, 2012 9:11 am
> To: vox at lists.lugod.org
> 
> 
> Red Hat is now a billion dollar company.
> 
> Below are some past quotes of doom!
> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/red-hat-rubs-billion-dollar-210757979.html
> 
>     "Linux is the hype du jour." Gartner, 1999.
> 
>     "We think of Linux as a competitor in the student and hobbyist market
>     but I really don't think in the commercial market we'll see it in
>     any significant way." Bill Gates, 2001.

Every sentence is Wow! My favorite is,
"The collective investment in Linux is
$10 billion - freely available to you."

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