http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/23/1156204 ...[Red Hat CTO Michael] Tiemann also said the software world "can no longer afford the folly of proprietary architecture." Red Hat seems to be taking a cue from Sun's support of OpenOffice.org as a 100% free project while selling essentially the same code, plus some add-ons, as StarOffice. OpenOffice.org experiments in ways that StarOffice does not. One example is an in-progress Mac OS X port. Successful experiments are available for later StarOffice inclusion. Fedora, said Tiemann, will provide "the stimulus and the R&D" behind many future Red Hat innovations. And while Fedora explores the leading edge of Linux, Red Hat will concentrate on producing stable, mature enterprise products -- and, obviously, on marketing those products. -Andy
