Red Hat for Christmas

Submitted by Pluribus on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 11:52

Open Source tools promote Freedom. Proprietary tools do not. Of course, companies that intentionally build tools that promote Freedom may also be interested in other progressive ideals. Red Hat, the company that produces the Fedora Linux distribution is one such company. 

Red Hat Cancels Party;  will feed needy instead

The corporate culture at Red Hat has changed over the years. This year, Red Hat scaled back it's plans for their corporate Christmas party. The savings will be donated to a charity, Feeding America. They expect the donation will enable Feeding America to provide roughly 800,000 additional meals. That's a lot of food. Other offices are involved in coat drives and canned food drives.

With the economy in a tail-spin, this change in corporate culture is not only timely and appropriate; it shows how the values of community and collaboration created by the open-source development process can also result in a different style of corporate capitalism. I only wish stories like this got more attention in the main stream media.

--pluribus

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