Red Hat CEO Szulik Looks Forward

[Thomas Cameron]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> nicola -kOoLiNuS- losito wrote:
>>> Il giorno sab, 17/06/2006 alle 05.45 -0400, taharka ha scritto:
>>>> In this UpFront podcast, Red Hat Chairman, president and CEO Matthew
>>>> Szulik talks with eWeek Editorial Director Eric Lundquist about Red
>>>> Hat's purchase of JBoss, the future of open source and Szulik's 
>>>> interest
>>>> in reviving the U.S. education system.
>>>>
>>>> Podcast download in MP3 format at;
>>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1978108,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 
>>>>
>>>
>>> Uhm ...
>>> Houston, seems we've got a problem :-)
>>>
>>> [hint: mp3 thing up over there]
>>
>> And your RealPlayer can't play it?
>>
> Firefox called up the mplayer plugin, which worked just fine.  My 
> problem with this is more religious than anything else.
>
>   Why, for heavens sake, should the president of RedHat, who does not 
> ship an mp3 capability in any distribution for patent reasons, allow 
> this to be offered on the net in that format, when there are good 
> alternatives in the form of ogg, which I suspect FC5 comes 
> preconfigured to play just fine.
>
> That it was allowed, speaks volumes for his 'commitment' to open source.
>
Bullsh!t.  He has no control over how eWeek formats their stuff.  It is 
not his company.  I'd be amazed if he even knew they planned on 
releasing it as MP3.

Although I can certainly see where you'd doubt his commitment to F/OSS, 
seeing as all Red Hat has done lately is release Red Hat Directory 
Server, the Global Filesystem and Red Hat Cluster Suite and Fedora Core 
as open source projects.  Oh, yeah, and in buying JBoss Red Hat is 
committed to continuing JEMS as a F/OSS project.  Yeah, what a bastard 
that Matthew Szulik is. 

Jeez, how much does RHAT have to do before people will finally give them 
a tenth of the credit they deserve?

Thomas