[eraser215]

Almost everything you said here is complete garbage.

Underperform the rest of the tech sector? No... 70+ quarters of successive double digit growth until the acquisition.

Mismanaged the company with respect to virtualisation? You're conflating mismanaging the company with possible strategic errors in virtualisation.

Destroy FOSS spirit? Absolutely the opposite. He is held in the highest esteem by every red hatter I have ever spoken to. Not only that, but he made the effort to do red hat training to learn the tech in the early days. How has he destroyed any FOSS spirit through his actions? Give an example.

Everyone has macbooks now? No. Sellers generally do, I'll give you that, but technical staff are mostly using Fedora or RHEL. Flexibility has always been a huge part of the employee experience.

Standard corporate welfare initiatives for liberal arts majors? You sound like an angry white man who can't stand that people other than yourself may have their disadvantage recognised nowadays. Stop feeling so threatened.

Why are you so bitter?

[dang]

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

Your comment would be fine without the first and last bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: yikes - you broke the site guidelines quite badly in several other places in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827745

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827731

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827386

We have to ban accounts that post that way. If you'd please stick to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it. The idea is: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do—regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.

[dralley]

"The sector" is also a bit of an apples/oranges situation. There are very, very, very few if any pure-play open source software companies that are as successful as Red Hat.

[eraser215]

Good point. In pure play OSS nobody has come close, for sure. My understanding is that the only other software company that had the same sustained growth trend was salesforce. Could be wrong though.