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

To: Doug B. who wrote (687)	8/17/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Eric Sandeen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1794

Does anyone know if Red Hat plans to do any contract programming for Linux? Seems like that would be an interesting source of revenue, beyond the service / support / shrink wrap plan... There should be plenty of cases where paying for a custom Linux app would be cheaper than paying for multiple licenses of some piece of proprietary software. Off the top of my head, say, a new airport that needs arrival/departure screens. Red Hat could even subsequently release something like this under the GPL - this software hardly gives one airport a competetive advantage over another, and since the code is available, it would be easy to maintain as their needs changed. Just an idea...