Is Red Hat in financial trouble?
Is Red Hat in financial trouble?
Posted Feb 28, 2011 22:19 UTC (Mon) by boog (subscriber, #30882)In reply to: Is Red Hat in financial trouble? by hp
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
A few responses to the discussion on business and ethics:
- a FOSS business is expected to have low margins;
- monopolies have high margins that should be undercut by FOSS companies;
- nothing is stopping RH taking a long-term view of shareholder value (growing the cake not their slice); does that charming American law mention a time limit?
As a non-FOSS example of the last point, take Apple, who happily and repeatedly make their own top-selling products obsolete with their breakneck pace of development; many companies really struggle not to rest on their laurels in that kind of situation.
Debian seems to be the tortoise in this race.
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