Red Hat IPO

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

It would be interesting to get a hold of the articles of incorporation to
see what the ownership structure looks like and see if there was any
experimentation with distributive sturctures for the profits....

ian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:10 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Red Hat IPO
>
>
> Martin Schiller wrote:
>
> >Doug Henwood said on 8/12/99 3:54 PM
> >
> > >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.
>
> Ok - how long can the rest of it last, or will the logic of profit
> maximization take over?
>
> Doug
>