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I worked as a consultant for many years before becoming the CEO of Red Hat. One of the most surprising aspects of that work was that people would open up to me, an outsider, about all the elephants in the room—but they were too polite or embarrassed to call out the obvious issues or blame their peers inside their own organizations. My fellow consultants and I would sometimes joke that just about every individual inside a company could immediately tell you what was going wrong and what needed fixing. But whenever everybody convened for a meeting to point out those very issues, you wouldn’t hear a peep about anything that could be perceived as negative. To our amazement, they were more open to hearing feedback from us, the outsiders, than from their own colleagues. read more

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Comments (3)

tuppp ·
Wonder if Whitehurst has ever had a difficult conversation regarding how Red Hat's systemd is screwing the rest of the Linux world.

Wow... I hadn't realized it before, but opensource.com is actually Red Hat, and it's editorial staff is a bunch of Red Hat creeps. What a sham.
750 ·
What lovely timing, just as Sharp has raised another stink about the LKML.

Oh and thanks _tuppp for taking a closer look at the site. I really should have noticed the logo to right before, as the site was giving me the oddest impression already.

Frankly given what has been going on as of late, it would not surprise me of if a "professional" fork of Linux gets announced soon. Ostensibly under the purview of the Linux Foundation, but with maintenance handed to a board of corporate reps.

Their first order of business will probably be to fast track kdbus, and announce that systemd is their only supported init. Oh and probably roll in those UEFI secure boot changes that Torvalds refused.

I really miss the RH of Ewing and Young.
jdixon ·
> Wow... I hadn't realized it before, but opensource.com is actually Red Hat,

I believe it's always been a Red hat site.

> I really miss the RH of Ewing and Young.

Yeah. I need t find my share certificate for my 15 shares of Red Hat stock. I think it's a bit past time to sell it.

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