<story><title>A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat</title><url>http://opensource.com/business/12/3/billion-thanks-open-source-community-red-hat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>I&apos;m seeing a lot of comments that equate to nitpicking over how little RH is giving back to the community.&lt;p&gt;Despite how uninformed I might consider that opinion to be, given how many open source developers are on payroll, and how many projects get many of their patches from RH, the other little thing that RH has done was effectively legitimize Linux as a sellable resource.&lt;p&gt;Without the RedHat sales team getting RH in the doors of enterprises around the world, Linux would be significantly further back in terms of performance, compatibility, scalability, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat</title><url>http://opensource.com/business/12/3/billion-thanks-open-source-community-red-hat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>To add a little perspective since people seem to be losing their heads at &quot;one billion dollars!&quot;, their annual GAAP net income was only $146.6 million. [1] How much did omgpop get bought for again? Anyway, congrats RedHat. Who knows where Linux and FLOSS in general would be without them. I tip my...(•_•)  ( •_•)&amp;#62;⌐■-■  (⌐■_■) hat to them.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/3/red-hat-reports-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2012-results&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/3/red-ha...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>