[ILUG] RedHat IPO

[Justin Mason]

kevin lyda said:

> Lars Hecking burst across the net:
> > So much hype about the RedHat IPO.
> >
> > SuSE just published their 1999 revenues. For the fiscal year
> > 1/4/1998-31/3/1999, total turnover was about 15million US$, compared to
> > RedHat's 11million. They have net earnings (don't say how much, though ;)
> > compared to RedHat losing 130000 US$ in the same period.
> 
> wonder how much they spend on r&d...  and what %age of that is
> gpl'ed?

I'll second that.  You can say what you like about RedHat, but at least
they put some of that money back into the *whole* Linux community with
their RHAD labs.


In response to the VRT petition being the start of Irish political
lobbying on the web -- eh, not really; EFI were here a long time ago,
before the Irish politicos had email addresses. ;)

--j.