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> Well, I would have said (well, in fact I did say) that the Linux kernel's lack of assignments would cause problems but in practice it hasn't. Is this why Cyg
by atgreen 10y ago
> Well, I would have said (well, in fact I did say) that the Linux kernel's lack of assignments would cause problems but in practice it hasn't.
Is this why Cygnus didn't buy Red Hat? :)
- gumby 10y agoFunny you should say that; there were two related reasons: 1 - the reason we didn't sell support for Linux is we couldn't provide the same level of support that we did for gcc etc. What we didn't comprehend is that most people didn't _want_ any support, or at least only minimal support, but they were used to paying for software and liked the idea of getting it on a physical medium with a paper manual. 2 - when the companies merged they were both about 200 people. RH had 20 engineers while we had over 160. Our revenue was about 15X theirs IIRC. But indeed: which company had a larger market cap? I was told when they went public they only had 6 engineers but I don't know if that was true.