[geeks] [rescue] Ultra 5 OS

[Andrew Jones]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:32:13PM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 23:28 +0300, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:13:58PM -0400, hike wrote:
> > >RED HAT!
> > 
> > They did not develop Linux and actually entered the game fairly late.
> > 
> > Geoff.
> > 
> 
> Define "fairly late":  Redhat Linux was first released in Nov '94 which
> is pretty early.  Anyway, when they acquire something they open source
> it and continue to support it.  GFS, and the in-progress virtualization
> suite.  They also give back to the community quite a bit.

Don't forget that Red Hat bought out the very first open source software
company: Cygnus.

Cygnus was turning a profit on open source before Linux had a mailing list.