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Ransom H. Love

The Love of Linux Chapter 15: Lessons Learned

When we went on the MBA trip to the Orient, after visiting Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and mainland China, encountering many cultures…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

Ransom H. Love

The Love of Linux Chapter 14: So What About the SCO Lawsuit?

I have been asked by many people what my opinion of what SCO did. I have not commented publicly about their actions, because it really…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

Ransom H. Love

The Love of Linux Chapter 13: The Attack of the “BORG/Board”

You will be assimilated or destroyed. While digesting the elephant of the SCO, much of our attention was turned internally, partly because…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

Ransom H. Love

The Love of Linux Chapter 12: The Formation of Standards-UnitedLinux; a New Paradigm of…

One of the greatest principal to be learned from Linux and the formation of UnitedLinux is the power of a new type of collaboration even…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

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The Love of Linux Chapter 11: The Business Model

How do you make money on something that is basically free? That is the question that I have been asked almost from the first day that I…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

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The Love of Linux Chapter 10: The Open Company — Using Councils to Manage

Partially because of all of the negative experiences I had had working for other companies and having suffered injustice at the hands of…

Feb 24, 2016

The Love of Linux Chapter 10: The Open Company — Using Councils to Manage

Feb 24, 2016

Ransom H. Love

The Love of Linux Chapter 9: The Love of Linux — A Lesson for Business

Why have so many people invested so much for this thing called Linux? When you consider that Linux has been a volunteer effort for the most…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

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The Love of Linux Chapter 8: Empowerment, Lessons Learned from Open Source

As we began to understand the SCO business and take stock of the company, we felt that we had four things that even with all the problems…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

Ransom H. Love

The Love of Linux Chapter 7: The Python Swallowing the Elephant

I use the analogy of the python, because after a python has swallowed its meal, it maintains the shape of its victim until it has had time…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

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The Love of Linux Chapter 6: Taking the Company Public

Before Red Hat went public, we had spoken with several investment bankers to evaluate the interest. Our initial search led us to S. G…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

Ransom H. Love

Ransom H. Love

Over 34 years of strategic and tactical experience in the global information technology industry with over 21 years in senior-executive management positions inc

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