The problem is that you donate it, and then the person who gets it afterwords can't go to your iCloud account and unlock it. You are long gone and can't be found.
It's frustrating that Apple (and for that matter, all the Android phones that do the same thing with Google logins) assume "Theft!" as the immediate go-to answer. I'd prefer theft to be something NOT assumed until they're told one happened. EG. Keep the current system in place BUT allow anyone to call in or email the right people to request it be unlocked for re-activation. If there's not a flag on that device's serial number saying someone already reported it stolen, do the unlock.
Your frustration is due to ignorance. If I steal your phone under these conditions, I'll just make sure I reset it before you have a chance to login and lock it... assuming you remember to, so when you go to tell Apple that its been stolen... too late.
They've dealt with a few more thieves who are clearly a lot more experienced at it than you, there's a reason EVERYONE does it this way, its secure by default, not secure if you remember and have the opportunity to react fast enough.
As for unlocking by contacting Apple... have you tried it?
I ask because the article the article mentions the California legislation that pushed this feature to exist... but it ignores the fact that the same law requires unlock processes to deal with these situations.
My guess is, no one involved in any of this complaining has actually bothered to do anything to unlock the devices after seeing the message. Sounds a whole lot more like most of the posts here are from people who don't know what they're doing and didn't bother to figure out the way around the issue.
To put it bluntly, BareBones is full of shit in their logic for removing BBEdit from the app store in the first place. As a user of TW and BBEdit when all of that happened, they dropped out of the app store in protest because they didn't want to change some instructions on how to install plugins - NOT BECAUSE OF ACTAUL TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS
They could have stayed on the app store all along, you just couldn't have certain features work exactly the same out of the box (can't just run a plugin from anywhere on the FS for example and some other things that only matter to the most power of power users).
No instead, they took it off the app store, then made anyone who had it on the app store pay again for updates after having just bought the latest version. And to top it off, their own fucked up installer/updater will update you to a later version of the software... that you aren't licensed for, and then tell you after 30 days to fuck off and get a license.
When challenged on the subject, they gave a bullshit answer, and said I should go get a refund from Apple because that would be easier than dealing with their support . . . to get a non-appstore version of the software I had just bought on the app store.
BareBone software is a bunch of greedy liars; Fuck'em
Problem solved. See how simple that was? Do you need notifications in your browser: No, not unless you're trying to use a browser as an application engine, which is your first mistake; Everything after that is just more calamity.
Because the deadhead pilot happened to follow a different checklist that also happen to disable power to the computers that control TRIM to the horizontal stab.
That checklist didn't resolve the MCAS issue, but it effectively took the MCAS issue offline by disabling the system MCAS was telling to do bad things.
Its likely he thought the aircraft was in a faulty take-off configuration because of the trim system being malfunctioning... so he disabled the trim configuration system... which also just happens to take out MCAS's ability to do any harm... since it happens to go through that trim configuration system. It was behaving as though it was in a bad take off configuration... except it should have behaved that way much earlier in the flight, like right off the runway which is why other pilots may not have rerun the take off config checklist... which is what the deadhead pilot did that saved the day.
Different minds deal with issues in different ways based on our previous experiences. Sometimes we get it right for the wrong reason, and that gets re-enforced for the wrong reasons... but it really doesn't matter why as long as it keeps you alive:)
The amount of energy used to just get into the air is ridiculous compared to anything on the ground. Flying is for something where you want to get somewhere in a hell of a hurry, where you need to be there in 5 minutes instead of 25 minutes, and its entirely worth playing $1000 to get there in 5 instead of 25 . . .
Of course any situation like that with any sort of frequency... as in frequent enough to be able to pay for a taxi 'services' could more than likely be done much better/safer/cheaper and probably just as fast with something like a point to point train.
Which means... there's pretty much 0 reason to design and build a 'taxi' when existing helicopters already cover the role.
What is a flying taxi... a helicopter that any random moron can drive? Who thinks this is a good idea? People can't avoid backing into things and running over children when all they have to do is worry about what's in the one direction they are moving in... you want to put random people in the air, where they have to worry about 6 different directions at any give point? No amount of electronics will make it safe for 99.9% of the existing taxi drivers to drive a 'flying taxi'. You'll still need a pilots license...
If you want a flying taxi, there are several on Youtube, and there are logical and engineering reasons why its a dumb idea to bother with. Its just ridiculously inefficient.
Best description of 'mass' as energy and sound in a 'vacuum' like 'space' that I've seen in ages, nice. Simple concepts that get overshadowed by the practical aspects of sayings like 'no one can hear you scream in space'
So let me get this straight, a bunch of 20-25 year olds are whining about having to get paid 28k a year (not bad for a job for someone with no skills required) to sit on their ass and browse the internet for shit they were going to seek out on their own anyway. And to top it off, they're adding in the excuse that it makes them smoke weed and have sex... and feel suicidal. How is this different than every other angsty ridden emo in that age bracket?
Let me give you a fucking hint, no matter what you do with this group of people, they're going to feel and act the act same way, its called being a young adult and it happens to pretty much all 20-25 year olds even if you were too blind to notice/remember.
You think your waite last time you ate out like his job? You do realize that EVERYONE in the service industry is going into the storage closet, smoking weed and fucking right? And they all think their lives are miserable and talk about suicide after dealing with shitty customers on a daily basis?
Same for that poor kid behind the McDonalds counter, they have sex and smoke pot in the walk in freezer. Walmart? They tend to do it in the back room or when unloading trucks. Your Starbucks 'barista'... she's expecting to get laid when she gets to work, its the only time she's not in the house with her or his parents.
What would these people do if unemployed? Go home, smoke weed, look for sick shit on the internet cause they're bored and too lazy to find a job rather than complain about life, and fuck anything that would let them... which would be another angsty 20 year old trying to find their way in life.
The only news here is that you idiots at slashdot posted another ignorant Verge story as if they or you have any sort of clue what actual journalism is. The Verge is not a reputable news source, its not even news.
"I'm too busy to answer your email" really means "Your email is not a priority for me right now."
Yes, that's exactly what it means, and thats exactly what I intend the sender to think when I don't answer.
Rude is the jackass who thinks its my responsibility to answer the single line email they sent that can't even be considered a complete thought, let alone an acceptable email.
Rude is people that don't understand that they aren't the only people in the world who I talk to and communicate with.
Rude is the asshole who attaches Delivery Status Notification requests to email so he can tell if I read it so he knows to bug me even more . . .
You do realize that a VM is running on a shared host... right... and they hypervisors are exploitable as well?
The hypervisor is just another kernel running containers known as VMs using a slightly different technique, but from a practical standpoint it is functionally identical. If you want security you don't share resources, the level of security is almost directly inversely proportional to the level of resource sharing
Better suggestion: leave the network management to the guys who know how to do it.
I'm perfectly fine with that statement.
Heres the problem, those people aren't the ones making the decisions about throttling. Its management throttling so they can charge more that is really at play, not throttling because of network congestion.
Work in telecom a few years, engineers have almost 0 to do with decisions like this and are generally overruled.
Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that you can buy bluetooth enabled speakers with batteries and a 3.5mm line out jack for another speak for $15
Not really a point in chrome cast audio devices except for legacy hardware. The people that want to cast to legacy hardware aren't buying them anymore, they already have the ones they need and they're legacy hardware is most likely going to die before their chrome cast audio. At which point the new hardware will use a common standard instead of google protocols.
You can play the spy card here, and you may even be right, but the far more likely scenarios is simply that no one wants these things anymore.
Most of the people who use them are too young to know what you're talking about, and they're too concerned with immediate gratification to care that Bird is a bunch of turds
We exist because of a ball of matter radiating EM in all directions, some of it reaching our planet and powering life here. You may have heard of it, we call it 'the sun'
Try not to be so melodramatic, increasing entropy in the universe is the only option, fortunately there is enough available that the human mind can't even fathom the length of time its going to take to run out of useful entropy.
For reference however, wireless charging works pretty much exactly and just as efficiently as that wall wart you use to convert the outlets 120/240 volt energy down to the 5 or so you phone wants to charge with using that cable . . . so before you freak out about the wireless charging matt that doesn't actually emit very much EM until something is placed on it because it negotiates power output with devices laying on it...
Worry about the wall wart hooked to that cable powering your phone... which is emitting wasted EM the entire time its plugged into the wall at a much higher level than your charging matt, even if the phone isn't plugged in. (And yes, I'm momentarily ignoring that the power matt uses a wall wart as well.
You can get all uppity and act like wireless charging is some horrible thing, but all it does is shows your ignorance of physics. The wall wart is an order of magnitude more wasteful than the charging matt, so worry about removing the hundreds of those step down transformers embedded in pretty much every electric device you own that doesn't run off batteries (and some that do!) before you worry about a power matt.
You're one of those guys that brags about driving a Pruis cause its efficient and good for the environment while powering it from coal and oil power plants aren't you?
The idea that.NET Core is "superior" to the.NET Framework is new to me
It is not "superior", its just the direction that.NET is going, a simple reorganization. Common functionality across operating systems will be in Core, more OS specific stuff outside of core..NET Core is just a subset of the whole.NET ecosystem that is less platform/OS specific. Think of the original full framework as libX and libc combined,.NET Core is just splitting out the libc part (less than great analogy, but I think you see the point). Its not better, just better compartmentalized
The banks that failed were for the most part financially solvent.
They did not in fact fail at all. they were legislated out of business. Several financial requirements were added effectively changing the legal limits on debt to cash ratio they were allowed.
The changes made banks that were operating perfectly (though dangerously on the edge) suddenly illegal. You cant suddenly undo all your outstanding loans so they suddenly had numbers on the books that were illegal. A few people start dumping investments in those banks and a 'run' on the bank starts, days later they're closed.
some would have failed sure. MOST wouldn't, and none of the big ones you heard about would have.
That was a democrat led mistake. Right idea,logic . . . totally wrong outcome. in hindsight... it still should have been done, just in a way that didn't cause a minor reset.
Looking at the list of companies, its pretty clear that its directly related to average age of employees.
Google, LinkedIn, Uber... Majority of these employees are20-something devs with little real world experience who think that tricks used to make them work more and frivolous/meaningless 'perks' make these great places to work.
Intel - Actual engineers, not software devs calling themselves engineers with 0 certifications from an actual trade group - i.e. average person here has been around longer, worked more and is aware they work is a 4 letter word for a reason, not easily tricked by perks like 'in house cafeteria' which is really just another way to get you to work through lunch.
Amazon - Mostly factory workers who bust their ass doing physical labor in long shifts or older admins making AWS stay green. I.E. they actually work for a living rather than sit at a desk whining about the broken crappuccino machine.
Basically this survey just confirms that manipulating people who don't know any better is still very profitable for business
I've written client interfaces and plugins for both Exchange and Notes. The Notes creator you refer to is correct, you were using it wrong.
I realize this sounds like standard asshole software dev response, but bare with me.
Neither Notes nor Exchange are 'mail servers' or 'clients', they SUCK at these roles by themselves. Where Notes and Exchange shine is when you are using them as the client for all your business operations for your Sales staff. In one of my stints contracting for a very large, well known US hotel chain that you've certainly heard of, I was integrating legacy systems into Exchange and Outlook. They have their entire workflow entirely within Outlook. It connects to Salesforce, NetSuite, ZenDesk, their reservation systems, their sales/promo systems, all of it is integrated and linked. It can be made to work pretty much however you want it to, all with easy to integrate DBs and UIs (relatively easy, compared to doing everything from scratch).
Its absolutely beautiful to see it work, all the information for just about any system in the company is easy to find and linked to all the other information for that guest or property.
It also took them 10+ years to implement at least, probably longer, cost multiple millions of dollars, probably into the tens of millions.
And you know what . . . ITS STILL A SHITTY EMAIL CLIENT, but when coupled with everything else it can be made to do, being a shitty email client isn't really that big of a problem.
I run OSX at home, Linux at work. I have Windows VMs for nothing more than servicing old clients like the one I mentioned here, I'm not a Windows/MS fanboy by any means, but if you think Outlook is an email client and it sucks at that, then it is actually that you're using it wrong. Outlook is a collaboration client, Exchange/Outlook is a EXTREMELY extensible collaboration framework. Its not meant tiny organizations to read their email, its meant for megacorps to put their entire workflow in and when done right, it can be great.
Notes needs to die, its current form is complete shit, but in its heyday, it did its job well, but 99% of its users WERE USING IT WRONG. This is true of Exchange still today, 99% of the people who use Exchange should be using gmail. If its nothing more than email and contacts, you're using it wrong.
Why do OSS companies and fanboys continually make the ridiculous assumption they can sell something people can already have for free. Then to top it off, the 'support' is provided by the newest, least experienced and cheapest people they could find... which 9 times out fo 5 means when you ask for support, the person your asking has far less experience with the product than you do.
Opening a support ticket with on of these companies is basically your opportunity to fix their problem for them while they charge you for doing so.
IBM purchased redhat because they needed a kubernetes provider that didn't suck ass like their own half assed blue mix crap. They needed a real linux support provider with real customers in an area where they suck.
Redhat's profitability had jack shit to do with the purchase.
But if you wanted to get back to why Redhat is solvent at al, you'd notice that they make roughly 50% of their revenue in a given year from returns on financial investments made when they did their IPO, not from anything related to the services they offer. If they had not went public, had not gotten those investments, Redhat would have went out of business a long time ago.
They are much closer to surviving at this point than they once were because.... they sell a bunch of closed source software that makes the OSS actually manageable without spending half a million to roll your own which is what other companies using Linux at scale have to do.
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. . . Thats exactly what they are doing.
The problem is that you donate it, and then the person who gets it afterwords can't go to your iCloud account and unlock it. You are long gone and can't be found.
It's frustrating that Apple (and for that matter, all the Android phones that do the same thing with Google logins) assume "Theft!" as the immediate go-to answer. I'd prefer theft to be something NOT assumed until they're told one happened. EG. Keep the current system in place BUT allow anyone to call in or email the right people to request it be unlocked for re-activation. If there's not a flag on that device's serial number saying someone already reported it stolen, do the unlock.
Your frustration is due to ignorance. If I steal your phone under these conditions, I'll just make sure I reset it before you have a chance to login and lock it ... assuming you remember to, so when you go to tell Apple that its been stolen ... too late.
They've dealt with a few more thieves who are clearly a lot more experienced at it than you, there's a reason EVERYONE does it this way, its secure by default, not secure if you remember and have the opportunity to react fast enough.
As for unlocking by contacting Apple ... have you tried it?
I ask because the article the article mentions the California legislation that pushed this feature to exist ... but it ignores the fact that the same law requires unlock processes to deal with these situations.
My guess is, no one involved in any of this complaining has actually bothered to do anything to unlock the devices after seeing the message. Sounds a whole lot more like most of the posts here are from people who don't know what they're doing and didn't bother to figure out the way around the issue.
To put it bluntly, BareBones is full of shit in their logic for removing BBEdit from the app store in the first place. As a user of TW and BBEdit when all of that happened, they dropped out of the app store in protest because they didn't want to change some instructions on how to install plugins - NOT BECAUSE OF ACTAUL TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS
They could have stayed on the app store all along, you just couldn't have certain features work exactly the same out of the box (can't just run a plugin from anywhere on the FS for example and some other things that only matter to the most power of power users).
No instead, they took it off the app store, then made anyone who had it on the app store pay again for updates after having just bought the latest version. And to top it off, their own fucked up installer/updater will update you to a later version of the software ... that you aren't licensed for, and then tell you after 30 days to fuck off and get a license.
When challenged on the subject, they gave a bullshit answer, and said I should go get a refund from Apple because that would be easier than dealing with their support . . . to get a non-appstore version of the software I had just bought on the app store.
BareBone software is a bunch of greedy liars; Fuck'em
Problem solved. See how simple that was? Do you need notifications in your browser: No, not unless you're trying to use a browser as an application engine, which is your first mistake; Everything after that is just more calamity.
. . . Your example companies are selling closed source software on top of open source software.
They don't make any money off OSS, they make money off the closed stuff they put on top.
Way to prove the point there Sparky.
Because the deadhead pilot happened to follow a different checklist that also happen to disable power to the computers that control TRIM to the horizontal stab.
That checklist didn't resolve the MCAS issue, but it effectively took the MCAS issue offline by disabling the system MCAS was telling to do bad things.
Its likely he thought the aircraft was in a faulty take-off configuration because of the trim system being malfunctioning ... so he disabled the trim configuration system ... which also just happens to take out MCAS's ability to do any harm ... since it happens to go through that trim configuration system. It was behaving as though it was in a bad take off configuration ... except it should have behaved that way much earlier in the flight, like right off the runway which is why other pilots may not have rerun the take off config checklist ... which is what the deadhead pilot did that saved the day.
Different minds deal with issues in different ways based on our previous experiences. Sometimes we get it right for the wrong reason, and that gets re-enforced for the wrong reasons ... but it really doesn't matter why as long as it keeps you alive :)
The amount of energy used to just get into the air is ridiculous compared to anything on the ground. Flying is for something where you want to get somewhere in a hell of a hurry, where you need to be there in 5 minutes instead of 25 minutes, and its entirely worth playing $1000 to get there in 5 instead of 25 . . .
Of course any situation like that with any sort of frequency ... as in frequent enough to be able to pay for a taxi 'services' could more than likely be done much better/safer/cheaper and probably just as fast with something like a point to point train.
Which means ... there's pretty much 0 reason to design and build a 'taxi' when existing helicopters already cover the role.
What is a flying taxi ... a helicopter that any random moron can drive? Who thinks this is a good idea? People can't avoid backing into things and running over children when all they have to do is worry about what's in the one direction they are moving in ... you want to put random people in the air, where they have to worry about 6 different directions at any give point? No amount of electronics will make it safe for 99.9% of the existing taxi drivers to drive a 'flying taxi'. You'll still need a pilots license ...
If you want a flying taxi, there are several on Youtube, and there are logical and engineering reasons why its a dumb idea to bother with. Its just ridiculously inefficient.
Best description of 'mass' as energy and sound in a 'vacuum' like 'space' that I've seen in ages, nice. Simple concepts that get overshadowed by the practical aspects of sayings like 'no one can hear you scream in space'
So let me get this straight, a bunch of 20-25 year olds are whining about having to get paid 28k a year (not bad for a job for someone with no skills required) to sit on their ass and browse the internet for shit they were going to seek out on their own anyway. And to top it off, they're adding in the excuse that it makes them smoke weed and have sex ... and feel suicidal. How is this different than every other angsty ridden emo in that age bracket?
Let me give you a fucking hint, no matter what you do with this group of people, they're going to feel and act the act same way, its called being a young adult and it happens to pretty much all 20-25 year olds even if you were too blind to notice/remember.
You think your waite last time you ate out like his job? You do realize that EVERYONE in the service industry is going into the storage closet, smoking weed and fucking right? And they all think their lives are miserable and talk about suicide after dealing with shitty customers on a daily basis?
Same for that poor kid behind the McDonalds counter, they have sex and smoke pot in the walk in freezer. Walmart? They tend to do it in the back room or when unloading trucks. Your Starbucks 'barista' ... she's expecting to get laid when she gets to work, its the only time she's not in the house with her or his parents.
What would these people do if unemployed? Go home, smoke weed, look for sick shit on the internet cause they're bored and too lazy to find a job rather than complain about life, and fuck anything that would let them ... which would be another angsty 20 year old trying to find their way in life.
The only news here is that you idiots at slashdot posted another ignorant Verge story as if they or you have any sort of clue what actual journalism is. The Verge is not a reputable news source, its not even news.
Thats true, Google has never dealt with bots or fraud before on its ad platform . . .
I'm sure they've never thought of that . . .
"I'm too busy to answer your email" really means "Your email is not a priority for me right now."
Yes, that's exactly what it means, and thats exactly what I intend the sender to think when I don't answer.
Rude is the jackass who thinks its my responsibility to answer the single line email they sent that can't even be considered a complete thought, let alone an acceptable email.
Rude is people that don't understand that they aren't the only people in the world who I talk to and communicate with.
Rude is the asshole who attaches Delivery Status Notification requests to email so he can tell if I read it so he knows to bug me even more . . .
You do realize that a VM is running on a shared host ... right ... and they hypervisors are exploitable as well?
The hypervisor is just another kernel running containers known as VMs using a slightly different technique, but from a practical standpoint it is functionally identical. If you want security you don't share resources, the level of security is almost directly inversely proportional to the level of resource sharing
Better suggestion: leave the network management to the guys who know how to do it.
I'm perfectly fine with that statement.
Heres the problem, those people aren't the ones making the decisions about throttling. Its management throttling so they can charge more that is really at play, not throttling because of network congestion.
Work in telecom a few years, engineers have almost 0 to do with decisions like this and are generally overruled.
Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that you can buy bluetooth enabled speakers with batteries and a 3.5mm line out jack for another speak for $15
Not really a point in chrome cast audio devices except for legacy hardware. The people that want to cast to legacy hardware aren't buying them anymore, they already have the ones they need and they're legacy hardware is most likely going to die before their chrome cast audio. At which point the new hardware will use a common standard instead of google protocols.
You can play the spy card here, and you may even be right, but the far more likely scenarios is simply that no one wants these things anymore.
Most of the people who use them are too young to know what you're talking about, and they're too concerned with immediate gratification to care that Bird is a bunch of turds
We exist because of a ball of matter radiating EM in all directions, some of it reaching our planet and powering life here. You may have heard of it, we call it 'the sun'
Try not to be so melodramatic, increasing entropy in the universe is the only option, fortunately there is enough available that the human mind can't even fathom the length of time its going to take to run out of useful entropy.
For reference however, wireless charging works pretty much exactly and just as efficiently as that wall wart you use to convert the outlets 120/240 volt energy down to the 5 or so you phone wants to charge with using that cable . . . so before you freak out about the wireless charging matt that doesn't actually emit very much EM until something is placed on it because it negotiates power output with devices laying on it ...
Worry about the wall wart hooked to that cable powering your phone ... which is emitting wasted EM the entire time its plugged into the wall at a much higher level than your charging matt, even if the phone isn't plugged in. (And yes, I'm momentarily ignoring that the power matt uses a wall wart as well.
You can get all uppity and act like wireless charging is some horrible thing, but all it does is shows your ignorance of physics. The wall wart is an order of magnitude more wasteful than the charging matt, so worry about removing the hundreds of those step down transformers embedded in pretty much every electric device you own that doesn't run off batteries (and some that do!) before you worry about a power matt.
You're one of those guys that brags about driving a Pruis cause its efficient and good for the environment while powering it from coal and oil power plants aren't you?
The idea that .NET Core is "superior" to the .NET Framework is new to me
It is not "superior", its just the direction that .NET is going, a simple reorganization. Common functionality across operating systems will be in Core, more OS specific stuff outside of core. .NET Core is just a subset of the whole .NET ecosystem that is less platform/OS specific. Think of the original full framework as libX and libc combined, .NET Core is just splitting out the libc part (less than great analogy, but I think you see the point). Its not better, just better compartmentalized
The world is on fire and immersed in ignorance, but hey - dildo delivery delay must be two days, not an hour more.
You make fun of the situation. Wars have been fought over less.
It is, we are after all, primates
The banks that failed were for the most part financially solvent.
They did not in fact fail at all. they were legislated out of business. Several financial requirements were added effectively changing the legal limits on debt to cash ratio they were allowed.
The changes made banks that were operating perfectly (though dangerously on the edge) suddenly illegal. You cant suddenly undo all your outstanding loans so they suddenly had numbers on the books that were illegal. A few people start dumping investments in those banks and a 'run' on the bank starts, days later they're closed.
some would have failed sure. MOST wouldn't, and none of the big ones you heard about would have.
That was a democrat led mistake. Right idea,logic . . . totally wrong outcome. in hindsight... it still should have been done, just in a way that didn't cause a minor reset.
Well, stupid, because Netflix's gross profit went change, what you pay for service will go up to maintain the profit.
Looking at the list of companies, its pretty clear that its directly related to average age of employees.
Google, LinkedIn, Uber ... Majority of these employees are20-something devs with little real world experience who think that tricks used to make them work more and frivolous/meaningless 'perks' make these great places to work.
Intel - Actual engineers, not software devs calling themselves engineers with 0 certifications from an actual trade group - i.e. average person here has been around longer, worked more and is aware they work is a 4 letter word for a reason, not easily tricked by perks like 'in house cafeteria' which is really just another way to get you to work through lunch.
Amazon - Mostly factory workers who bust their ass doing physical labor in long shifts or older admins making AWS stay green. I.E. they actually work for a living rather than sit at a desk whining about the broken crappuccino machine.
Basically this survey just confirms that manipulating people who don't know any better is still very profitable for business
Ebay - I have no idea here.
I've written client interfaces and plugins for both Exchange and Notes. The Notes creator you refer to is correct, you were using it wrong.
I realize this sounds like standard asshole software dev response, but bare with me.
Neither Notes nor Exchange are 'mail servers' or 'clients', they SUCK at these roles by themselves. Where Notes and Exchange shine is when you are using them as the client for all your business operations for your Sales staff. In one of my stints contracting for a very large, well known US hotel chain that you've certainly heard of, I was integrating legacy systems into Exchange and Outlook. They have their entire workflow entirely within Outlook. It connects to Salesforce, NetSuite, ZenDesk, their reservation systems, their sales/promo systems, all of it is integrated and linked. It can be made to work pretty much however you want it to, all with easy to integrate DBs and UIs (relatively easy, compared to doing everything from scratch).
Its absolutely beautiful to see it work, all the information for just about any system in the company is easy to find and linked to all the other information for that guest or property.
It also took them 10+ years to implement at least, probably longer, cost multiple millions of dollars, probably into the tens of millions.
And you know what . . . ITS STILL A SHITTY EMAIL CLIENT, but when coupled with everything else it can be made to do, being a shitty email client isn't really that big of a problem.
I run OSX at home, Linux at work. I have Windows VMs for nothing more than servicing old clients like the one I mentioned here, I'm not a Windows/MS fanboy by any means, but if you think Outlook is an email client and it sucks at that, then it is actually that you're using it wrong. Outlook is a collaboration client, Exchange/Outlook is a EXTREMELY extensible collaboration framework. Its not meant tiny organizations to read their email, its meant for megacorps to put their entire workflow in and when done right, it can be great.
Notes needs to die, its current form is complete shit, but in its heyday, it did its job well, but 99% of its users WERE USING IT WRONG. This is true of Exchange still today, 99% of the people who use Exchange should be using gmail. If its nothing more than email and contacts, you're using it wrong.
Broke the open source business model.
WHAT BUSINESS MODEL?!
Why do OSS companies and fanboys continually make the ridiculous assumption they can sell something people can already have for free. Then to top it off, the 'support' is provided by the newest, least experienced and cheapest people they could find ... which 9 times out fo 5 means when you ask for support, the person your asking has far less experience with the product than you do.
Opening a support ticket with on of these companies is basically your opportunity to fix their problem for them while they charge you for doing so.
IBM purchased redhat because they needed a kubernetes provider that didn't suck ass like their own half assed blue mix crap. They needed a real linux support provider with real customers in an area where they suck.
Redhat's profitability had jack shit to do with the purchase.
But if you wanted to get back to why Redhat is solvent at al, you'd notice that they make roughly 50% of their revenue in a given year from returns on financial investments made when they did their IPO, not from anything related to the services they offer. If they had not went public, had not gotten those investments, Redhat would have went out of business a long time ago.
They are much closer to surviving at this point than they once were because .... they sell a bunch of closed source software that makes the OSS actually manageable without spending half a million to roll your own which is what other companies using Linux at scale have to do.