Red Hat CEO Szulik Looks Forward

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 05:33 -0500, 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.
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could you be any more of a schmuck?

He doesn't have any control over the formats that eweek uses to put
content on the Internet.

Craig