Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Posted Aug 2, 2023 3:05 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
Parent article: Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

He is in more dire need of an editor than any white man in history

Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Posted Aug 2, 2023 8:00 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (3 responses)

What are you talking about?

Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Posted Aug 2, 2023 8:25 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Ignore. Let's discuss Hall's article instead.

Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Posted Aug 2, 2023 12:55 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

The article is long, rambling and full of digressions which take away from rather than add to his point. They lead to irrelevant discussions like the one above on whether the IBM PC was inevitable. A good writer (or a mediocre writer with a good editor) will make their point more succinctly.

I like a good after-dinner talk as much as the next geek. But not everything needs to start with a discussion of the economic forces of the 1970s.

Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

Posted Aug 3, 2023 13:52 UTC (Thu) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link]

It's just riffing on an insult from Good Morning, Vietnam.