Red Hat CEO Szulik Looks Forward

[Gene Heskett]

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.

-- 
Cheers, Gene