Red Hat Chief Rallies Linux Troops
On Tuesday, Red Hat Inc.'s chief executive harkened back to the old rabble-rousing populist days of Linux, delivering a wakeup call to developers at LinuxWorld here.
Michael Szulik, who had put his company's money where his mouth was Monday when Red Hat filed suit against The SCO Group, claimed that the industry has "devolved" since the onset of SCO's litigation and warned that developers must get involved in the fight as well as push the evolution of the Linux platform.
"This is not the open-source community I joined," Szulik said.
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Szulik did not turn his speech into the "LinuxWorld equivalent of the Home Shopping Network," as he said, promoting his own company's products. Instead, Szulik talked about 20-year-old students and other individuals he had met while crisscrossing the country who had fiddled with Red Hat's own source code, and talked, developer to developer, about improving it.
