First of all, thank you for your kind words about Red Hat Software!
We were careful to make sure that our announcement was clear that
it is a minority stake that they hold. Minority => non-controlling.
Furthermore, they understand very well that we are a free software
company, and they understand that we have neither the power nor the
desire to shoehorn anything into the kernel. They understand that
even under the auspices of an NDA, we can't (and wouldn't want to
anyway) release binaries without releasing sources.
>In other words, if RedHat says, we're going
>to do "foo" and Intel says - "No. We'll pull out if you do foo".
Investments are not like savings accounts, subject to arbitrary
withdrawals. But so what if they were able to sell out? There's
no threat there. I think that this whole discussion is merely
theoretical; I have no suspicion of Intel even trying to push us
around.
However, the subject of Red Hat's and Intel's finances is hardly
linux-kernel material, and I've only posted here because I've seen
more than one person making what appear to me to be similar assumptions.
This is the only post I intend to make on the subject, and I have
set the reply-to to /dev/null (and I'll hope it is not munged by
the list software). Thank you for your forbearance.
michaelkjohnson
"Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the
prudent as the heavy petting of literature." -- Fran Lebowitz
Linux Application Development http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm/lad/
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