[LUAU] RedHat/Fedora

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Mid of the night and finally got a chance to browse the web.  Suddenly, 
a news alert:  Red Hat shares up 25% (thus pushing its market cap to 
~$3.5B, I believe).

I am sure everyone remembers this:  Not too long ago, Red Hat was facing 
the reality of the Internet/Linux bubble and decided to abandon their 
consumer/desktop versions of Linux as part of their corporate-wide 
full-retrench strategy to preserve capital and thus to hopefully 
survive.  It was our lowly local boy Warren who convinced Red Hat to 
recycle their unwanted surplusage into a community project called Fedora.

Now both Novell and Sun are desperately trying to build their own 
versions of the Fedora Success (capital "S") model.  Personally, I 
believe Warren can claim credits for at least 3 of the 3.5B of Red Hat's 
total market capitalization, but who's count?  :-)  Wayne