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Red Hat chief financial officer Charlie Peters announced on Wednesday that he's stepping down from the company, even as it reported another quarter of strong earnings that beat even its own guidance. The Linux kingpin reported $455.9m in total revenues for the third quarter of its fiscal 2015, which outperformed Wall Street's …

  1. asdf

    mission accomplished

    Once udev became dependent on systemd it was all gravy for Red Hat. The more OSS that is Linux only the better after all. Just watch those dependencies pile up. As soon as dbus gets into kernel space in most distros the GPL can pretty much be ignored as well. Good times for Red Hat ahead by cashing in other's work so blatantly even Google is jealous.

    1. Salts

      Re: mission accomplished

      That would be a company that is probably the largest contributor to Linux(it was in 2013) and produces software as open source, that was founded in 1993 when Linux was a baby and has supported it ever since? I am not saying there is nothing to criticise, but they have done a lot of good stuff IMHO.

      1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

        Re: mission accomplished

        "they have done a lot of good stuff IMHO"

        Absolutely. Too bad that appears to be their previous business model. The current one is a little bit less "community engagement" and a lot more "embrace, extend...what was the third one again...?"

      2. asdf

        Re: mission accomplished

        Yes I will admit they have done quite a bit for Linux (less so for other *nix). Its just a shame that a lot of that support contract money is now being used for nefarious purposes.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Leaving to spend more time with his money?

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