[lug] -- new website: www.wideopen.com

[bill ehlert]

from the on-line san francisco chronicle, 21 oct 99:

 As the open source software Linux gives
 Microsoft's Windows operating system its first real
 challenge, dozens of Web sites have proliferated
 that are devoted to the movement. 

 Now Red Hat, the North Carolina company that
 sells and supports Linux operating systems, plans to
 start an online journalistic venture devoted to
 authoritative coverage of the open source
 phenomenon. 

 Red Hat has hired U.S. News and World Report's
 technology correspondent Russ Mitchell, a veteran
 scribe who has served as a Business Week bureau
 chief and managing editor of Wired magazine. 

 Mitchell is editor in chief of the company's Web site
 at www. redhat.com and now is starting up a San
 Francisco Web publication called Wide Open that
 will cover the open source movement, which
 advocates giving away for free the computer code
 for software like Linux. 

 Mitchell and Red Hat say the site -- to debut early
 next month at www.wideopen.com -- will be an
 independent look at all things open source. If that
 means writing something flattering about a Red Hat
 competitor, or negative about Red Hat, so be it. 



it's running now

        http://www.wideopen.com/




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