Red Hat is a company I admire, they have the courage to stand against MS no matter what, and are not intimidated by the FUD (Fear, uncertainty and doubt) from Steve Ballmer. And now they say: "Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence". Red Hat is well protected by the Open Source Assurance Program, and if there is ever a patent infringement, they promise to replace or modify the software, is as easy as that.

 

In this matter I believe we should be very grateful to Red Hat, who has always stood in front and against MS in this matters, and they have a solid business, they are not just an underdog Linux distribution anymore, they have evolved into a solid well known Linux vendor. I know people tend to criticize Linux distributions when they get mainstream, but think about it, if no Linux distribution ever becomes mainstream, when is Linux going to really progress? In my honest opinion, this is happening all now, 2007-2008 will be very interesting years for Linux in general.