Red Hat CEO Szulik Looks Forward

[Gene Heskett]

Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> 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
> 
Craig, you've not been exactly an angel in tossing out insults in the 
past, so I'll just consider the source and let the schmuck thing ride.

And I'd wager that had he been aware of it, he may have been able to 
exert some influence over eweeks postings.  However, I doubt the subject 
  (ogg vs mp3) ever crossed his mind as there are more important fish to 
fry in terms of his daily grind.  Its just one of the niggling little 
details that someone in his position just assumes has been properly 
delegated.

If you want that to be an apology, take it that way as its as close as 
you'll get from me on this particular subject.  It was a detail that 
*should* have been handled, and wasn't.  OTOH, if he wanted to make sure 
the winderz folks could play it, then he did indeed make his point and 
I'm just preaching to the choir.  In any event, other than calling 
attention to an apparent up-yours to open source, this discussion is 
fruitless.

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Cheers, Gene