| Red Hat accuses Sun of Microsoft tactics [CNET] |
Jun. 08, 2002
Stephen Shankland reports that since Sun has begun to charge resellers reportedly 'less than $10 per copy' to include StarOffice in their distributions, Red Hat has announced they will not include the product in Red Hat Linux and accuses Sun of engaging in Microsoft-like tactics. Shankland interviews both Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik and Mike Rogers, Sun's general manager for desktop and office-productivity software in this insightful article at CNET . . .
" . . . In the past, Sun's StarOffice was free to consumers, but the company began charging for the product with the release of version 6. With that version, Sun also started charging companies like Red Hat to bundle the product in their versions of Linux."
"That's the change that had to do with Szulik's decision to drop StarOffice from Red Hat's distribution of Linux. "We think there are a variety of alternatives," he said. And that change also inspired the Microsoft comparison . . . "
" . . . Other Linux sellers, including SuSE and MandrakeSoft, have versions of their products that include StarOffice 6 . . . "
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