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Red Hat does not own anything that's valuable aside from their developers, who chose to work at Red Hat due to their pro-FOSS positioning. If IBM chose to start
by moosingin3space 8y ago
Red Hat does not own anything that's valuable aside from their developers, who chose to work at Red Hat due to their pro-FOSS positioning. If IBM chose to start shutting projects like Fedora down or move in the direction of closed-source, these developers would have no desire to remain, and would leave, making that $40B acquisition worthless.
- rbetts 8y agoRed Hat has extensive customer relationships, customer databases, contracts for future revenue, partnerships, operational processes, . . . product IP is just a slice of the pie.