>So what do you Linux fans out there make of Red Hat going public? How
>can you make money distributing free, open source software? Is it one
>of the final acts of the dot.com mania that anyone would buy the
>stock?
It has a number of products and a user base. If they put together the installers that make the setup of the OS as simple as a mac install (or even windows) first, they've got the market. It's true value added. If they have the money to develop, the market will be huge. Linux runs on all of the discarded machines that you can find and will function as an enterprise server.
Martin