I'm trying to capture glimpses of Matthew's and Brian's statements in this morning's press conference (mostly Matthew speaking). I'm paraphrasing in some cases, so any inaccuracies are my own. On Ubuntu (question asked by Ashlee Vance of The Register):"I think it's important to balance use...against monetization, and align it to markets. Certainly the work that Ubuntu has been doing is good, but [customers] have I’m trying to capture glimpses of Matthew’s and Brian’s statements in this morning’s press conference (mostly Matthew speaking). I’m paraphrasing in some cases, so any inaccuracies are my own.On Ubuntu (question asked by Ashlee Vance of The Register):“I think it’s important to balance use…against monetization, and align it to markets. Certainly the work that Ubuntu has been doing is good, but [customers] have very different requirements than just to have a low-cost client.” Red Hat said that its customers are looking for something more than simple replication of existing desktop experiences. Red Hat is trying to push the envelope of what “desktop” means. On RHX… …designed to scale the availability of open source support services through the web. On the Novell/Microsoft agreement…Everyone has been talking about interoperability. OUr customers have not been asking about basic file system interoperability, but rather interoperability at the data level. We would like nothing more than to engage in industry-wide, standards-based interoperability activities. But 14 years after Windows was first introduced, we still don’t have interoperability. Our engineers talk daily with Microsoft’s engineers, and we’ll continue to do that. But the interoperability discussion needs to be public and open. What continues to impress me about Red Hat is that the company seems focused on innovation, not replication. Red Hat isn’t interested in doing a retread of yesterday’s business models and technology. Is it always the absolute cutting edge? Of course not. But the intention is to be change the game, not play the incumbents’ game with a man down. There’s something in that for all open source vendors to notice and emulate. Open Source