Senior Red Hat executives today admitted open source software was "peripheral" to the IT strategies of most Australian organisations.
Red Hat has reshuffled its board and appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president of engineering.
The chief executives of Microsoft and Red Hat held a private meeting in New York, an indication that relations between the rivals might be warming.
The Open Source Initiative, a group seeking to become more influential in matters concerning the cooperative-programming philosophy, has seen its second change of leadership in less than a month.
Top Linux seller Red Hat acknowledged on Friday a misstep in its relations with technology enthusiasts but said the profit motive is helping it to mend its ways.
Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.
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Red Hat's CTO claims future struggles for open source may involve political and political challenges in copyright law or digital rights management or intellectual property issues, rather than winning respect.
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