Red Hat

  • Queenly branding for Red Hat ladies

    How to organize women without seeming strident? Go corporate.
  • Flag of inconvenience

    Fearing the Taiwanese flag would irk China, Red Hat yanked it from its version of Linux -- and started an international geek uproar.
  • Linux in China: Not ready for prime time

    Why should the masses bother with free software when stealing from Microsoft is practically patriotic?
  • After the fall

    Executives at Women.com, VA Linux, Productopia and others forge a path into post-market correction Silicon Valley.
  • Can't buy Linux love

    The stumbles of a Kleiner Perkins-funded Linux start-up prove that money isn't everything in the world of free software.
  • Chapter one: Boot time

    Part 2: Starting points
  • Linux in every lap

    Stars of the original Mac development team try to solve one of the hottest puzzles in technology today: How to make the Linux desktop user-friendly.
  • Can Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?

    As dot-com mania sends shares in open-source companies soaring, the movement searches its soul.
  • Microsoft, Mahir and money, money, money

    A software superpower is declared a monopoly, free software rakes in billions and money makes the world go round: The year in tech.
  • Who controls free software?

    Does Red Hat's aquisition of Cygnus give the company the final say on free software's future?
  • The Red Hat diaries

    Are Linux coders and Linux companies on different paths? A slapdash new book and a recent flurry of corporate maneuvers suggest just that.
  • Linux at the bat

    Red Hat's Marc Ewing steps up to the plate against Microsoft in the billion-dollar free-software ballgame.
  • Is the Thinkpad now Linux-friendly?

    IBM says its laptops will be "compatible" with Red Hat Linux -- but just what does that mean?
  • The Cybercommunist Manifesto

    Are free-software hackers undermining capitalism and the free-market economy with their code giveaways?
  • Bare the wealth

    A Linux programmer builds a "wealth monitor" that tracks Red Hat's valuation and who's getting rich off free software.
  • Six-packs, macaroni and software

    Does stuff you like make for stocks you should hold? And why do companies offer "affinity groups" cheap stock when they go public?
  • Inside the Red Hat IPO

    I wrote the code and got in early on the stock -- but was it worth so much trouble?
  • Red Hot

    The open-source movement basks in the glow of a successful IPO for Red Hat, the first Linux company to go public.
  • A Linux lament

    As Red Hat prepares to go public, one Linux hacker's dreams of IPO glory are crushed by The Man.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Who's afraid of "The Blair Witch Project"? Plus: Making money with open source; did all the candidates shirk Vietnam service?
  • Red Hat snags Atomic designers

    The leading Linux vendor hires a boatload of Web designers -- perhaps for a portal play?
  • Is Red Hat becoming Linux's Microsoft?

    Hardly. But as the lovey-dovey Linux business matures, elbows are beginning to fly.
  • Linux and Microsoft -- together at last

    A new round of benchmark tests pits free-software hackers against the gang from Redmond in a race for operating-system supremacy.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Punk pioneer Mike Watt declines his glass coffin; ease up on Jar Jar already!
  • The really new economy: Red Hat's IPO

    A company that distributes "free software" announces a $96 million public offering.
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