LWN.net Logo

Red Hat CEO Szulik on business, SCO, and other topics (IT Manager's Journal)

Red Hat CEO Szulik on business, SCO, and other topics (IT Manager's Journal)

Posted Jun 1, 2004 18:40 UTC (Tue) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469)
Parent article: Red Hat CEO Szulik on business, SCO, and other topics (IT Manager's Journal)

No this is very disappointing. The RedHat CEO apparently doesn't know the difference between public domain (i.e. not claiming copyright at all) versus licensing under the GNU GPL.

*sigh*


(Log in to post comments)

Red Hat CEO Szulik on business, SCO, and other topics (IT Manager's Journal)

Posted Jun 1, 2004 18:47 UTC (Tue) by pglennon (guest, #649) [Link]

look, you are just splitting hairs, here. Clearly Matthew Szulik knows the difference. Let's try not to be too rabid here on our allies, even if we don't 100% agree with them.

we are all a little to eager to eat our young...

Red Hat CEO Szulik on business, SCO, and other topics (IT Manager's Journal)

Posted Jun 1, 2004 21:44 UTC (Tue) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

The man does have a point though - it is indeed aggravating to see such
an idiotic blunder from a a representative of a leading linux company...

Linux is not now, nor has it ever been, abandoned to the "public domain"!

It may be the interviewer or editor, not Szulik

Posted Jun 3, 2004 1:08 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

The editing of the interview is atrocious. A lot of the sentences aren't English ("Microsoft has the envy of the economic model", "There is no difference between someone on the Fedora team or not"). Perhaps he said something like "to the public under a suitable license" and that got morphed along the way to the nonsense phrase "into the public domain to do public license".

Copyright © 2008, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds