| No, I absolutely reject all of this. Some things I have learned from now very nearly 30 years of writing for public consumption are: * Most people cannot skim read * They don't know that they can't * As a result of the above, what people get out of articles is semi-random. Their eyes snag on key words and phrases or something and they come back and complain about stuff that was not there or which they totally misunderstood. * That's why there are so many writing tools about "Fogg indices" and "reading levels" and so on; most people can't read but don't realise. * That is also why video channels are now so huge. I am personally not terribly interested in Red Hat's position. I approached the company -- I approached all the companies concerned for comment. I got no responses from most of them, and bland PR banalities when I got anything. OFF THE RECORD company representatives are often happy to provide interesting details but on the record they can't, or they will get sued. Everyone is terrified of getting sued. This is FACT #1 to remember: everyone is scared of lawyers getting involved. So nobody will do anything that will get them sued. RH would not have done this if it thought it would get sued, but it dare not SAY "we wouldn't do this in case we get sued" -- in case it gets sued. Therefore there is nothing but bland corporate BS from all involved. It is very naïve and short sighted not to allow for this. > Nice deflection and PR work there. And this is the proof that you don't understand me, or my position, or any of this at all. I do not use any RH product. I do not recommend them or advocate them. But more to the point: Red Hat fired me. I have no love for RH whatsoever. I have often been accused of anti-RH bias. But you don't understand what I am really saying. This move of the company's will make it more money short term, but long term, when I say, in print, REPEATEDLY, "this is good for the Linux world" and "good for other distros" that is because it will lose RH users and lose RH customers and lose RH money. That will be good news for SUSE, for whom I worked longer than any other job I've ever had and a company whose products I actually like. It will be good for Debian and Canonical and Ubuntu, none of whom I have ever worked for. > From outside, you seem to fit better in Red Hat's PR department I should post the loud anguished criticism I have had from RH staffers about this coverage, but that would be a grotesque violation of confidentiality and of professional ethics. Many of them understand as little and as poorly as you do. Go read my Twitter threads, and see the pages of attacks on me for my anti-RH bias. Start here: https://twitter.com/GordonMessmer/status/1681090089152290816 It is not a crime to not be very good at understanding long written articles. But if you don't, you should know that you don't. |