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How will the merger of Red Hat and JBoss help customers?

Sacha Labourey, Vice President, Engineering

In this video, Sacha Labourey, Vice President of Engineering, explains what the merger of Red Hat and Jboss means for customers. [10 mins 5 secs]
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Value Shows

Michael Tiemann
Vice President, Open Source Affairs, Red Hat

Red Hat consistently ranks among the highest-rated vendors for value in the CIO Insight survey. Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat, discusses the reasons why, analyzing the survey categories: value, reliability, and loyalty. [10 mins 5 secs]
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Value Shows

Werner Knoblich
Vice President, EMEA Sales

Watch and listen to Werner Knoblich, VP of EMEA Sales, talk about the values Red Hat brings to customers: security, reliability, peace of mind, and trust. [1 mins 32 secs]
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Red Hat Summit 2006

Nashville, TN

From May 31 to June 2, 2006, Red Hat will be in Nashville, Tennessee for the second-annual Summit--a technology conference that brings together all kinds of Linux and open source users, from educators to big business IT professionals. Get a taste of Music City life and check out the headliners in our big show. You won't want to miss it.
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Truth Happens

Despite ignorance, ridicule, and opposition, truth happens. Open source continues to revolutionize the industry. Everyday, someone around the world chooses a proprietary solution restricted by patents, copyrights, and trademarks. At the same time, someone else around the world learns of open source and adopts its innovative, compelling technology. [3 mins 30 secs]
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Summit 2005 Keynote

Michael Tiemann
Vice President of Open Source Affairs, Red Hat

Michael Tiemann takes open source concepts out of the software box and into the real world, highlighting the importance of freedom, accountability, and flexibility of innovation in ways you may not think of. He answers the inscrutible question "Why?"—Why open source? Why not proprietary? Why is open source development superior for your business? [33 mins 38 secs]
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Summit 2005 Keynote

John Buckman
Founder and CEO, Magnatune

John Buckman gives a visionary keynote, applying the concept of open source to the music industry. In a highly amusing comparison, Buckman touches on the RIAA lawsuits, SCO's legal battles, creative commons licenses, and the viability of open source within the entertainment industry. [27 mins 56 secs]
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Inevitable

After years of fierce competition, Microsoft and Sun have decided to settle lawsuits and set aside their differences. Why? The answer won't surprise those who know Linux and open source. Today the customer is in charge. See what happened, how history and the open source movement has helped bring us to where we are today, and why open source is inevitable because it allows the customer to take control. [3 mins 1 sec]
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Open source software licenses explained

Mark Webbink
Deputy General Counsel, Red Hat

In this video, Mark Webbink delivers a broad overview of the software licenses around open source, in layman's terms. [6 mins 41 secs]
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Choice

Imagine a world where technology is allowed to connect naturally and simple elements create complex systems. Where choice is multiplied and the system finds the best way. Watch this video and see why open source allows choice, choice equals freedom, and freedom equals power. [2 mins 0 secs]
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Value Shows

Brian Stevens
CTO and VP, Worldwide Engineering, Red Hat

Customers are driving the road map. In this short clip, Brian Stevens explains how a subscription based model changed the focus of Red Hat. [1 mins 17 secs]
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Summit 2006, Opening Keynote

Matthew Szulik
Chairman, CEO, and President, Red Hat

Matthew Szulik welcomes everyone to the Summit and discusses the issues of the open document format, patent legislation, and the value of transparency and truth. Learn about some of Red Hat's newest projects: 108, Dogtail, and Mugshot. [54 mins 45 secs]
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Summit 2006, Visionary Keynote

Cory Doctorow
Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing, shares the history of copyright law as it has applied to a range of technologies from radio to television to music. Learn about Doctorow's views on digital rights management technologies and how they threaten consumer choice. [30 mins 05 secs]
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Summit 2006, Visionary Keynote

Eben Moglen
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Eben Moglen, the Founding Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, issues a call to action to keep freedom safe in a time when innovation is threatened. Moglen gives us a history lesson, incorporating Ralph Waldo Emerson and the concept of Yankee ingenuity, to illustrate the importance of the free software revolution. [36 mins 28 secs]
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Summit 2005 Highlights

Three days. 800 attendees. Hundreds of activities. All in the Big Easy. Can we pack all that into one short video? Well, we can try. If you were there, relive the fun and excitement. If you were not, see what you missed. [2 mins 21 secs]
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Summit 2005 Keynote

Matthew Szulik
Chairman, CEO, and President, Red Hat

Matthew Szulik delivered the keynote on opening day. Watch as he defines the open source technical revolution and challenges the world-wide open source community to deliver on the promise of creating a transparent industry, where everyone is free to use technology as they see fit. [9 mins 37 secs]
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Summit 2005 Keynote

Mark Webbink
Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, Red Hat

Mark Webbink, Red Hat's legal expert on open source licensing, discusses patents and innovation in both proprietary and open source technology. He also talks about Red Hat's desire to open projects such as eCos, Red Hat Global File System, and the Fedora/Red Hat Directory Server. [26 mins 55 secs]
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Intellectual property explained

Mark Webbink
Deputy General Counsel, Red Hat

Mark Webbink takes some time out of his busy day to explain the basics of intellectual property rights in the software industry. He compares and contrasts four types of intellectual property: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. [6 mins 21 secs]
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Backstage pass: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

You've seen the software, now see some of the people who made it possible. In this video, members of the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® engineering and product management teams share the story of how Enterprise Linux was born. [6 mins 18 secs]
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The Open Source Triple Play

The Open Source Triple Play

Michael Tiemann
Vice President of Open Source Affairs, Red Hat

What is the Triple Play? Improving your company's total cost of ownership, reinvesting the savings to improve collaboration, and driving user innovation. Watch Michael Tiemann, Red Hat VP of Open Source Affairs, as he explains how the Triple Play means going beyond technical collaboration and fundamentally changing the way people think. Rather than simply dictating a solution, give customers the tools to innovate. [9 mins 20 secs]
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How Red Hat got its name

Bob Young
Co-Founder of Red Hat

Ever wondered how Red Hat got its name? You're about to find out... Maybe. Listen as Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat, tells three stories about how Red Hat got its name. Which one is true? Decide for yourself. [2 mins 8 secs]
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You may have noticed that some of the videos on these pages are licensed under the Creative Commons License 2.5, which allows for non-commercial distribution but doesn't allow derivative works to be created without Red Hat's permission. We'd like to see our works available in languages other than English and we'd like your help making it happen. If there's a video you want to see translated or want to help us translate, you can submit your request here. We'll do our best to accommodate you.