My feelings exactly. As a former employee for both places, I see this as the death knell for Red Hat. Not immediately, not quickly, but eventually Red Hat's going to go the same way as every other company IBM has acquired.
Red Hat's doom (again, all IMO) started about 10 years ago or so when Matt Szulik left and Jim Whitehurst came on board. Nothing against Jim, but he NEVER seemed to grasp what F/OSS was about. Hell, when he came onboard he wouldn't (and never did) use Linux at all: instead he used a Mac, and so did the rest of the EMT (executive management team) over time. What company is run by people who refuse to use its own product except for one that doesn't have faith. The person on top of the BRAND AND PEOPLE team "needed" an iPad, she said, to do her work (quoting a friend in the IT dept who was asked to get it and set it up for her).
Then when they (the EMTs) wanted to move away from using F/OSS internally to outsourcing huge aspects of our infrastructure (like no longer using F/OSS for email and instead contracting with GOOGLE to do our email, calendaring and document sharing) is when, again for me, the plane started to spiral. How can we sell to OUR CUSTOMERS the idea that "Red Hat and F/OSS will suit all of your corporate needs" when, again, the people running the ship didn't think it would work for OURS? We had no special email or calendar needs, and if we did WE WERE THE LEADERS OF OPEN SOURCE, couldn't we make it do what we want? Hell, I was on an internal (but on our own time) team whose goal was to take needs like this and incubate them with an open source solution to meet that need.
But the EMTs just didn't want to do that. They were too interested in what was "the big thing" (at the time Open Shift was where all of our hiring and resources were being poured) to pay attention to the foundations that were crumbling.
And now, here we are. Red Hat is being subsumed by the largest closed-source company on the planet, one who does their job sub-optimally (to be nice). This is the end of Red Hat as we know it. Without 5-7 years Red Hat will go the way of Tivoli and Lotus: it will be a brand name that lacks any of what made the original company what it was when it was acquired.
Don't worry, they will all be punished for this- they will now have to use Lotus Notes.
Well Japan passed a law to keep the real facts and statistics on Fukushima hidden. In addition, they can just fail to count the number of people dying of cancer thanks to this for the next couple of 100 years. The radiation ridden water from Fukushima that continues to be released travels all the way to the US Pacific coast.
Yeah...I'll believe it when I SEE as far as China and India going full in to get rid of fossil fuels and start being the "clean" countries in the world.
I suppose if we see them actually do anything meaningful, then we in the US can look in on it again.
In the US, we've already made great strides in cleaner air...time to sit back and let the rest of the world and the worst polluters make some serious changes, and only then we start risking our economy on overregulation of energy industries that power our economy in so many ways.
US are the leaders only if they compare themselves to the worst in the world. Except for air quality rules in some very limited areas of the country, US have been laggards as compared to the rest of the 'West'.
And I keep wondering why USA doesn't score higher on the corruption index.
Organisations like Transparency International are themselves not transparent and get to define corruption differently every time they do a 'survey'. They more or less function to assuage concerns of western populations which believe in it that even if things are bad "at least we are not like those third world hell-holes out there".
Its based on perception rather than on hard facts. The impact is also never considered.Again a 100 government clerks demanding 10 dollars bribe to do their job would do less damage than 1 instance or bribery which would enable them to increase the amount of pesticide or arsenic in food or water.
The desire to prove moral superiority drives seems to Transparency international.
When this happens in Western societies as it has been happening, you have a recession. A never ending recession for the vast majority of people as they are in a race to the bottom. Western societies have been in this for the past decade or two and all that is preventing people from recognising this is the funny money that is floating around in the stock market and making the rich richer.
As for the other large non-western economies they have been co-opted into this system and the same thing is happening there.They have been fed enough carrot for them to like the western funny money system and before they realise where they are- voila they will be stuck in the same morass..
Unless you work in an investment bank, where they choose to turn prevent it- most IM software allows you to save the IM conversation. It is not a way to effectively turn off all audit trails.
This kind of cartel formation is exactly what was predicted by Adam Smith. All the 'free marketeers' who have never read Adam Smith are talking crap when they pretend that he was against regulation.
That is part of the Aryan/Dravidian theory invented by the Brits to justify their rule as one in a long series of invasions. It has been conclusively disproved by genetics- as in science..
The only thing that is pointless here is the unending desire to kill trees for no valid reason.
You have no idea how many times I watch office workers print something only to scan it back to a digital format again.
And yet we see endless people who print out from those same digital copies.
As for killing trees, well unless you live a place where the energy is from a renewable source such as hydro. Well you're trading killing trees to burning coal which pollutes the atmosphere and the mining of coal destroys the forest to a point those same trees cannot grow back because the soil is contaminated with the coal (looking at you North Carolina). So what's worse?
Well said. You should also consider though the energy spent on digging out the resources and manufacturing the devices used for reading the electronic version though- and the impact on the environment when it meets an early grave due to forced obsolescence.
As opposed to Occupy Wall Street that squatted in the middle of Manhattan and did go to war with law enforcement?
I have no great love for the current 'left wing', but by your standards and definition of violence, both Gandhi and MLK must have been pretty violent people as well.
Peaceful resistance and demonstrations are required for a living democracies. Free speech zones are an indicator showing that democracy is being stifled.
No, it's valuable experience. A lot of us have been through it, some repeatedly. My company decided to contract to India to build a new CRM-style application for our call center. 18 months later, it still didn't work; not that it just needed polishing, I mean you couldn't even start the fucking JBoss instance because there were too many errors. We never did see the thing run, just mockups. The CTO eventually told them to fuck off, we hired 4 more developers inhouse, and got the entire project completed in 6 months alongside our other duties.
Had we just hired *one* local developer at the conception of the project, and kept everything internal, we would have saved a year, several hundred thousand dollars in human fees, and whatever else was lost in productivity while we sat on our ass waiting for deliverables to be needfully done. The CxOs learned the hard way, and nowadays the word "India" is a curse in our office.
Well I have been on both sides of many such things. In many cases, the projects fail for very very predictable reasons:
1. Management always selects the lowest cost bidder. There is some kind of feeling that automagically the risk is transferred to the vendor who has been foolish enough to bid at the lowest cost.
2. Vendors are so keen to please the client that they forget the basics of how to avoid SNAFUs. The only question vendor's management permits their people on the ground is 'how high' when they are told by the client to jump.
3. Greedy vendors in turn put in quotes which would be very difficult to do at margins which are barely justifiable. Once the contract is one vendor's management look at increasing their margins and replace experienced and expensive people with many cheap, fresh graduates.
4. Projects themselves are started because of what somebody read in a newspaper or a vendor journal or similar outlet for the hype cycle of IT. There is no chance that it would ever succeed because of the business case is based on false premises.
I could go on..But none of these are unique to India, you can experience them with any set of companies anywhere in the world. The only people who think these are unique would be people with limited world experience and an insular mindset.
My Dell Studio laptop purchased in 2009 was supported by Ubuntu out of the box. There were a few releases in between which introduced problems, but I would say 95% of all functionality( and 100% of everything important) has always been supported.
But what if this housing was instead provided for by the state as material instead of being paid for in cash ? it can be given a nominal value, but essentially kept under public ownership to prevent the kind of runaway inflation you talk about. This has been done even in capitalist countries before..
Of course, a complete Universal Basic Income will take a loooong time. But there's already many country on the world that give some sort of basic income for people that don't/can't work.
Ok, ignoring the aversion I have to paying someone who does nothing to earn it......let me ask the question, "How do we fund and pay for a UBI?"
I mean, even if you immediately garnished all the money the top 1% has....it wouldn't fund UBI for any length of time for the US, and once that money was gone, then what?
If it is funded by taxes....well, you get UBI and then you spend it back on taxes to get a UBI check...etc.
I just don't understand how a UBI system would be paid for....it just doesn't make sense to me.
Well it just means that the capitalism of tomorrow cannot be the capitalism of today. Thankfully we dont have to imagine all the components of it today, since it is still some way off. Someone who only knows about today's society would not be able to imagine the societies of the agrarian past as well, since they were fundamentally different.
Worst customer service. The Comcast of india. Hard to activate. Harder to cancel.
This... I would rather pay more for every call than take a connection from Reliance. They are always keen to take your money, but the moment a problem crops up( as it inevitably does) you are left to swim on your own. Anil or Mukesh Ambani- which ever brother it is from, unless you have a lot of time and a lot of patience its better to avoid Reliance.
This is no different from MS office then. I have had MS office do this to me for a 500 page document which just happened to be a detailed technical proposal due for submission in a couple of hours...
Slashdot Mirror
My feelings exactly. As a former employee for both places, I see this as the death knell for Red Hat. Not immediately, not quickly, but eventually Red Hat's going to go the same way as every other company IBM has acquired.
Red Hat's doom (again, all IMO) started about 10 years ago or so when Matt Szulik left and Jim Whitehurst came on board. Nothing against Jim, but he NEVER seemed to grasp what F/OSS was about. Hell, when he came onboard he wouldn't (and never did) use Linux at all: instead he used a Mac, and so did the rest of the EMT (executive management team) over time. What company is run by people who refuse to use its own product except for one that doesn't have faith. The person on top of the BRAND AND PEOPLE team "needed" an iPad, she said, to do her work (quoting a friend in the IT dept who was asked to get it and set it up for her).
Then when they (the EMTs) wanted to move away from using F/OSS internally to outsourcing huge aspects of our infrastructure (like no longer using F/OSS for email and instead contracting with GOOGLE to do our email, calendaring and document sharing) is when, again for me, the plane started to spiral. How can we sell to OUR CUSTOMERS the idea that "Red Hat and F/OSS will suit all of your corporate needs" when, again, the people running the ship didn't think it would work for OURS? We had no special email or calendar needs, and if we did WE WERE THE LEADERS OF OPEN SOURCE, couldn't we make it do what we want? Hell, I was on an internal (but on our own time) team whose goal was to take needs like this and incubate them with an open source solution to meet that need.
But the EMTs just didn't want to do that. They were too interested in what was "the big thing" (at the time Open Shift was where all of our hiring and resources were being poured) to pay attention to the foundations that were crumbling.
And now, here we are. Red Hat is being subsumed by the largest closed-source company on the planet, one who does their job sub-optimally (to be nice). This is the end of Red Hat as we know it. Without 5-7 years Red Hat will go the way of Tivoli and Lotus: it will be a brand name that lacks any of what made the original company what it was when it was acquired.
Don't worry, they will all be punished for this- they will now have to use Lotus Notes.
mod parent up. The idiot executive needs firing instead.
Well Japan passed a law to keep the real facts and statistics on Fukushima hidden. In addition, they can just fail to count the number of people dying of cancer thanks to this for the next couple of 100 years. The radiation ridden water from Fukushima that continues to be released travels all the way to the US Pacific coast.
Europe's welfare states and the rest of the world's healthcare systems are subsidized by American citizens.
Proof please- jingoism is no substitute for facts.
Mod Parent up. This post is informative- and true.
Why is this this BS not modded troll ?
Yeah...I'll believe it when I SEE as far as China and India going full in to get rid of fossil fuels and start being the "clean" countries in the world.
I suppose if we see them actually do anything meaningful, then we in the US can look in on it again.
In the US, we've already made great strides in cleaner air...time to sit back and let the rest of the world and the worst polluters make some serious changes, and only then we start risking our economy on overregulation of energy industries that power our economy in so many ways.
US are the leaders only if they compare themselves to the worst in the world. Except for air quality rules in some very limited areas of the country, US have been laggards as compared to the rest of the 'West'.
And I keep wondering why USA doesn't score higher on the corruption index.
Organisations like Transparency International are themselves not transparent and get to define corruption differently every time they do a 'survey'. They more or less function to assuage concerns of western populations which believe in it that even if things are bad "at least we are not like those third world hell-holes out there". Its based on perception rather than on hard facts. The impact is also never considered.Again a 100 government clerks demanding 10 dollars bribe to do their job would do less damage than 1 instance or bribery which would enable them to increase the amount of pesticide or arsenic in food or water. The desire to prove moral superiority drives seems to Transparency international.
When this happens in Western societies as it has been happening, you have a recession. A never ending recession for the vast majority of people as they are in a race to the bottom. Western societies have been in this for the past decade or two and all that is preventing people from recognising this is the funny money that is floating around in the stock market and making the rich richer. As for the other large non-western economies they have been co-opted into this system and the same thing is happening there.They have been fed enough carrot for them to like the western funny money system and before they realise where they are- voila they will be stuck in the same morass..
Unless you work in an investment bank, where they choose to turn prevent it- most IM software allows you to save the IM conversation. It is not a way to effectively turn off all audit trails.
BINGO!! Congratulations to Samsung for using another meaningless word ( AI) for their potentially worthless assistant.
This kind of cartel formation is exactly what was predicted by Adam Smith. All the 'free marketeers' who have never read Adam Smith are talking crap when they pretend that he was against regulation.
That is part of the Aryan/Dravidian theory invented by the Brits to justify their rule as one in a long series of invasions. It has been conclusively disproved by genetics- as in science..
Very insightful post. I wish I had mod points to mod this up..
Nice post- good analysis. I wish I had some mod points to up mod your post.
The only thing that is pointless here is the unending desire to kill trees for no valid reason.
You have no idea how many times I watch office workers print something only to scan it back to a digital format again.
And yet we see endless people who print out from those same digital copies. As for killing trees, well unless you live a place where the energy is from a renewable source such as hydro. Well you're trading killing trees to burning coal which pollutes the atmosphere and the mining of coal destroys the forest to a point those same trees cannot grow back because the soil is contaminated with the coal (looking at you North Carolina). So what's worse?
Well said. You should also consider though the energy spent on digging out the resources and manufacturing the devices used for reading the electronic version though- and the impact on the environment when it meets an early grave due to forced obsolescence.
As opposed to Occupy Wall Street that squatted in the middle of Manhattan and did go to war with law enforcement?
I have no great love for the current 'left wing', but by your standards and definition of violence, both Gandhi and MLK must have been pretty violent people as well. Peaceful resistance and demonstrations are required for a living democracies. Free speech zones are an indicator showing that democracy is being stifled.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
No, it's valuable experience. A lot of us have been through it, some repeatedly. My company decided to contract to India to build a new CRM-style application for our call center. 18 months later, it still didn't work; not that it just needed polishing, I mean you couldn't even start the fucking JBoss instance because there were too many errors. We never did see the thing run, just mockups. The CTO eventually told them to fuck off, we hired 4 more developers inhouse, and got the entire project completed in 6 months alongside our other duties.
Had we just hired *one* local developer at the conception of the project, and kept everything internal, we would have saved a year, several hundred thousand dollars in human fees, and whatever else was lost in productivity while we sat on our ass waiting for deliverables to be needfully done. The CxOs learned the hard way, and nowadays the word "India" is a curse in our office.
Well I have been on both sides of many such things. In many cases, the projects fail for very very predictable reasons: 1. Management always selects the lowest cost bidder. There is some kind of feeling that automagically the risk is transferred to the vendor who has been foolish enough to bid at the lowest cost. 2. Vendors are so keen to please the client that they forget the basics of how to avoid SNAFUs. The only question vendor's management permits their people on the ground is 'how high' when they are told by the client to jump. 3. Greedy vendors in turn put in quotes which would be very difficult to do at margins which are barely justifiable. Once the contract is one vendor's management look at increasing their margins and replace experienced and expensive people with many cheap, fresh graduates. 4. Projects themselves are started because of what somebody read in a newspaper or a vendor journal or similar outlet for the hype cycle of IT. There is no chance that it would ever succeed because of the business case is based on false premises. I could go on..But none of these are unique to India, you can experience them with any set of companies anywhere in the world. The only people who think these are unique would be people with limited world experience and an insular mindset.
My Dell Studio laptop purchased in 2009 was supported by Ubuntu out of the box. There were a few releases in between which introduced problems, but I would say 95% of all functionality( and 100% of everything important) has always been supported.
But what if this housing was instead provided for by the state as material instead of being paid for in cash ? it can be given a nominal value, but essentially kept under public ownership to prevent the kind of runaway inflation you talk about. This has been done even in capitalist countries before..
Ok, ignoring the aversion I have to paying someone who does nothing to earn it......let me ask the question, "How do we fund and pay for a UBI?"
I mean, even if you immediately garnished all the money the top 1% has....it wouldn't fund UBI for any length of time for the US, and once that money was gone, then what?
If it is funded by taxes....well, you get UBI and then you spend it back on taxes to get a UBI check...etc.
I just don't understand how a UBI system would be paid for....it just doesn't make sense to me.
Well it just means that the capitalism of tomorrow cannot be the capitalism of today. Thankfully we dont have to imagine all the components of it today, since it is still some way off. Someone who only knows about today's society would not be able to imagine the societies of the agrarian past as well, since they were fundamentally different.
How do you really manage 34 GB a month ? 2-3 HD movies a day will still not take you more than 15-20 GB per day...
Worst customer service. The Comcast of india. Hard to activate. Harder to cancel.
This... I would rather pay more for every call than take a connection from Reliance. They are always keen to take your money, but the moment a problem crops up( as it inevitably does) you are left to swim on your own. Anil or Mukesh Ambani- which ever brother it is from, unless you have a lot of time and a lot of patience its better to avoid Reliance.
This is no different from MS office then. I have had MS office do this to me for a 500 page document which just happened to be a detailed technical proposal due for submission in a couple of hours...
Yes and I am sure that MS office has never ever crashed when doing the most simple things! A single swallow does not a summer make.