OK now,,,everybody let your blood pressure come down on this one. That was
part of a prospectus and as such has to be very conservative and disclose
any possible weaknesses or they could be subject to lawsuits should anyone
rely on that prospecutus to purchase stock. They do not want any
possibility of that happening so,,, the disclaimers which you have just
read,,,,
Michael C. Rock
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of edoc
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:57 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Not so encouraging news from Red Hat
>
>
> Who wrote that tripe, Bill Gates, their "shadow investor"?
>
> What a perfect justifications for M$'s attacks on Open Source/
> GNU ... and at the right moment too ... disturbingly convenient.
>
> Redhat just reminded me of one of the reasons, besides apt-get
> versus RPM, that I chose a Debian-based distro.
>
> Gag me with a whole serving set!
>
> Doc
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Preece" <savatage@mindspring.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:36 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] Not so encouraging news from Red Hat
>
>
> >
> > I was checking stock quotes on several companies I checked rhat
> to see how
> > redhat was doing.
> > I read the company news section and this was there.
> >
> > RISK FACTORS
> > You should carefully consider and evaluate all of the
> information in this
> > prospectus, including the risk factors set forth below and the documents
> > incorporated by reference into this prospectus, before investing in the
> > shares being offered.
> >
> > Risks Related to our Linux-based Open Source Business Model
> > Our open source software business model is unproven.
> >
> > We have not demonstrated the success of our open source business model,
> > which gives our customers the right to freely copy and distribute our
> > software. No other company has built a successful open source business.
> Few
> > open source software products have gained widespread commercial
> acceptance
> > partly due to the lack of viable open source industry participants to
> offer
> > adequate service and support on a long term basis. In addition, open
> source
> > vendors are not able to provide industry standard warranties and
> indemnities
> > for their products, since these products have been developed largely by
> > independent parties over whom open source vendors exercise no control or
> > supervision. If open source software should fail to gain widespread
> > commercial acceptance, we would not be able to sustain our
> revenue growth
> > and our business could fail.
> >
> > I sincerely hope that this changes pretty quickly.
> >
>
>
>
>
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