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Red Hat CEO Publishes Open Source Management Memoir
ectoman writes: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has just published The Open Organization, a book that chronicles his tenure as leader of the world's largest open source company. The book aims to show other business leaders how open source principles like transparency, authenticity, access, and openness can enhance their organizations. It's also filled with information about daily life inside Red Hat. Whitehurst joined Red Hat in 2008 after leaving Delta Airlines, and he says his time working in open source has changed him. "I thought I knew what it took to manage people and get work done," he writes in The Open Organization. "But the techniques I had learned, the traditional beliefs I held for management and how people are taught to run companies and lead organizations, were to be challenged when I entered the world of Red Hat and open source." All proceeds from the book benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Opensource.com is hosting free book club materials.
Yeah.
Funny thing about computers. They change.
My first Redhat install was on a 486 and the linux world at the time was throwing an absolute shit-fit over the cataclysmic changes in kernel 2.0. Redhat was the devil for embracing it and it was going to be the end of Linux, Redhat, and everything opensource.
That was in 96, and here we have people spewing the same bullshit. It's been almost 20 years. Linux has eclipsed /every/ commercial Unix and Redhat is one of the most important OS vendors in the world. Period.
You're wrong.
Linux is moving on.
Please, for once in your life:
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.