Red Hat CEO Szulik Looks Forward

[Gene Heskett]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Because he doesn't/can't control what Ziff Davis/eweek.com does?

Oh, you said the magic words, Ziff/Davis.  'splains all.

>> That it was allowed, speaks volumes for his 'commitment' to open source.
> 
> Seriously, we aren't going to start a 3rd thread on this and rehash this
> to death again?  Are we?
> 

One could, but you'll do it without me.

> 


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Cheers, Gene