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@landley<\/a> @kkarhan<\/a> @ghul<\/a> @jti42<\/a> @pkal<\/a> Red Hat was pretty small when I joined it but Bob Young was small businessman having a success not VC. He always understood how the system worked. My job description at RH was basically 'do shit that you think needs doing and let us know what you did, unless there's a panic here in which case drop everything'. That worked for RH as they could tell customers 'yes if it goes to shit we can fix it because we have these people'.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/etchedpixels\/statuses\/115797154372712773","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/etchedpixels\/statuses\/115797154372712773","objectType":"note","content":"

@landley<\/a> @kkarhan<\/a> @ghul<\/a> @jti42<\/a> @pkal<\/a> Red Hat was pretty small when I joined it but Bob Young was small businessman having a success not VC. He always understood how the system worked. My job description at RH was basically 'do shit that you think needs doing and let us know what you did, unless there's a panic here in which case drop everything'. That worked for RH as they could tell customers 'yes if it goes to shit we can fix it because we have these people'.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/11810059","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley\/statuses\/115794423070301197","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley\/115794423070301197"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/users\/pkal"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/jti42"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=d676a7a50172507d","notice_info":{"local_id":"11810059","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T13:46:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/11810059"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley","displayName":"Rob Landley","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/32476-original-tmp20250721020652.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":169,"height":169},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/32476-96-20250722141502.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/32476-48-20250721022958.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/32476-24-20250724063306.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"32476"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/32476-96-20250722141502.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Rob does toybox and mkroot, writes linux docs, worked with j-core.org, long ago co-founded Penguicon and Linucon, wrote for Motley Fool, taught at ACC, etc. Trying to learn Japanese and make Android a self-hosting development environment.He\/him. Answers to "they\/them" just fine.","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"landley","displayName":"Rob Landley","note":"Rob does toybox and mkroot, writes linux docs, worked with j-core.org, long ago co-founded Penguicon and Linucon, wrote for Motley Fool, taught at ACC, etc. Trying to learn Japanese and make Android a self-hosting development environment.He\/him. Answers to "they\/them" just fine."}},"content":"

@kkarhan<\/a> @ghul<\/a> @jti42<\/a> @pkal<\/a> I have a rant somewhere... Sun harvested BSD for Bill Joy etc in 1982. Then BSDi hired the next wave away around 1990. Then MacOS hired away Jordan Hubbard etc in 1999.<\/p>

I thought GPL was why Linux didn't undergo that... but Apache didn't either. It was the internet community. (The Cathedral in catb was gnu\/fsf, not microsoft.) Usenet wasn't enough to turn down a big paycheck, but VC du jour never managed to hire @etchedpixels<\/a> away from the 1990s community.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley\/statuses\/115794423070301197","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley\/statuses\/115794423070301197","objectType":"note","content":"

@kkarhan<\/a> @ghul<\/a> @jti42<\/a> @pkal<\/a> I have a rant somewhere... Sun harvested BSD for Bill Joy etc in 1982. Then BSDi hired the next wave away around 1990. Then MacOS hired away Jordan Hubbard etc in 1999.<\/p>

I thought GPL was why Linux didn't undergo that... but Apache didn't either. It was the internet community. (The Cathedral in catb was gnu\/fsf, not microsoft.) Usenet wasn't enough to turn down a big paycheck, but VC du jour never managed to hire @etchedpixels<\/a> away from the 1990s community.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley\/115794423070301197","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/etchedpixels"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/users\/pkal"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/jti42"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=d676a7a50172507d","notice_info":{"local_id":"11810058","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T13:46:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley\/115794423070301197"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6001848","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}