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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (22)	6/8/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: Arktic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Wouldn't this be yet another great format for disinformation re: Red Hat's version of Linux??? But who would ever engage in disinformation <ggg>!!!??? Bottomline from those who use it, Linux works. It's open code so bugs can be fixed and improvements can be integrated by developers worldwide. It doesn't crash. Dvorak in PC Magazine recommended that MSFT ash can their bloated WIN98 code and drape the WIN98 interface over the Linux system and move forward with a workable operating system. I'm sure that made Bill feel warm and fuzzy. I'm absolutely convinced Red Hat will be a very strong competitor and that the boys in Renton are nervous, as well they should be. This is a very competitive product that they simply cannot control. It's open code! Gates revolutionized distribution of code by using copyright laws to make binary code an intellectual property product with market value. Code was something freely exchanged among academics before Gates wrote a seminal article on this issue (can't recall the citation but it was in the early days of MSFT in New Mexico). Now, Linux is turning Gates' empire wrong way up by saying, no... we're going to make this open code and anybody can use it. The cat has jumped back out of the bag and the playing field is changing. If the Red Hat concept of packaging and distributing Linux weren't meritorious, it seems intuitively obvious that Dell, Intel, et al would not be taking a position in the company. This is exciting stuff that points toward the future of computing. Once a critical mass of Linux installations are in place, there will be a flood of applications that will make all of our heads spin. I think there will be some substantial money made by those who invest early in Linux via Red Hat stock. (EOM)