[TAG] RHX: Red Hat, Inc. does the right thing

[Rick Moen]

Red Hat, Inc. seems to have taken quick and effective action to correct
some misleading statements about licensing that had previously been on 
the firm's Web pages for the "Red Hat Exchange" (RHX) partner-software
sales program:

http://www.redhat.com/rhx/
https://rhx.redhat.com (and sub-pages)

Their corrections have been quite thorough and accurate!  The firm
should be commended for this very responsive action.  E.g., the main
description pages for RHX say things like:

  RHX helps you compare, buy, and manage business applications -- all
  available from the open source leader. All in one place.

  We've done the work for you. You'll find profiles, ratings, priceseven
  free trials -- for every application. Working in collaboration with our
  partners, applications are validated to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
  delivered through Red Hat Network, and backed by Red Hat as the single
  point of contact for support.

All of the former claims and implications of RHX's offerings being
uniformly open source have been corrected, top to bottom.  I've sent a
specific thanks to the manager in question.

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