Any line of code I write could in fact trip across a patent I never even knew existed, and that's a problem for innovation, and it's a problem for open source
Michael Tiemann
We will provide software to get Internet devices - thin servers, point of sale terminals, digital set-top boxes - up and running with Linux.
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[Overall, Red Hat is] very, very pleased with the way Linux has matured this year,.. We see no doom and gloom in our space.
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To build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open and better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy.
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Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.
The stakes are very high in how we construct the future of the Internet,.. Do we want a winner-takes-all scenario for whichever company ultimately creates that particular piece of intellectual property that maximizes interoperability (across systems) or do we want to create a commons?
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This represents our entrance into the Internet appliance or 'post-PC device' market. These tools will help developers create applications for things like point-of-sale terminals, digital jukeboxes, and even car stereos
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His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.
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But looking for the effect of proprietary software on the open source community is like trying to measure the gravitational effect of the earth on the orbit of the Sun.
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