Peter Green

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    • Is Red Hat Opposing Document Standard to Prepare Ban on Windows? [view article]
      Dennis Thank you for your answer, But I think you miss my point. MS has forced this through in a way that is typical of it's previous behaviour. This threatens many competitors both directly and indirectly. To suggest that a company is not serving it's shareholders by spending time on the issue if only indirectly threatened is wrong in my opinion.

      Red Hat's position is very clear on the support of Open Standards. Microsoft's patent threats are also very clear.

      Microsoft's behaviour may have been, in a narrow sense, good for it's shareholders but they have been bad for the rest of us to such a degree that I believe competing companies are often, if not always, serving their shareholders best interests by opposing Microsoft.

      Regards - Peter Green


      On Mar 29 03:23 PM Dennis Byron wrote:

      > In answer to Mr. Peter Green, thanks for your rational comment.
      >
      >
      > Just so you understand how seekingalpha works, I am an independent
      > analyst/consultant that blogs on my own web site and at other sites
      > with which I am affiliated. Seekingalpha picks up my posts when
      > it wants and when it feels the content is germane to its readers.
      > Please do not stop reading Seekingalpha because you do not agree
      > with my opinion.
      >
      > Since you say you agree with Mr. Penguin, the Linux devotee who commented
      > before you, please understand that all my posts--the ones that SA
      > picks up and those it chooses not to--are written from the perspective
      > of the investor, primarily the institutional investor. My blog post
      > says nothing pro or con about any particular standard but simply
      > asks the question: Why is a publicly traded U.S. company with very
      > specific legal governance obligations to the shareholder, wasting
      > its time and the shareholders' money on an issue related to an IT
      > market (document processing software) in which it does not even compete?
      > A rational investor can only conclude that Red Hat wants to further
      > an agenda that will in fact help it in a market in which it does
      > compete at some point in the future.
      >
      > (Therefore, I have no idea if Thomas'/Red Hat's 10 points are correct
      > nor do I care. I do know that at least one of them is misleading.
      > It is correct to say that Microsoft has itself not implemented the
      > standard in question. But that is because the ECMA has changed the
      > standard in the last two years based on input from something like
      > 87 national ISO standards bodies. Microsoft cannot implement the
      > standard until ECMA finishes the standards process. Red Hat's press
      > statement, which I reference at the beginning of my blog post, includes
      > similar red herrings.)
      >
      > At this point, the investors in Red Hat (RHAT) are ill served by
      > trying to get governments around the world to "legislate" (or even
      > worse-"edictize&q... the brands of IT products their citizens will pay
      > for and use. Despite Mr. Whitehurst's postion as reported in Infoworld
      > on 3/27 that "George Bush is good for open source," it is an unbelievably
      > short-sighted position. One American company that is very well respected
      > in the open source community has already thought through the consequences
      > of this position on its blog (see hyperic.com/blog/hyper...
      > /).
      >
      > How soon before governments will legislate against companies based
      > on the geographic location of their headquarters? Or the religion
      > of their owners. Or the color of their owners' skin? Red Hat is
      > on a slippery slope and its investors need to understand that.

      >
      >
      > -- Dennis Byron       Apr 08 02:53 PM
    • Is Red Hat Opposing Document Standard to Prepare Ban on Windows? [view article]
      I also work for Red Hat and used to work for Sun 1995 - 2002 and Novell 1988 - 1992. I have plenty of experience competing in a fair and legal way.

      I have studied MS behaviour for 20+ years and as is well documented elsewhere this issue is continuing evidence of 'bad' possibly illegal behaviour.

      I absolutely agree with the sentiments expressed paticularly Thomas & Mr. Penguin.

      I have been a fan of seekingalpha for a while but this damages your credibility with me.       Mar 22 10:08 AM
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