Let's reduce IBM to "gain for AWS" (or whatever) because of Cringely. :'-)

I've spent 10 years of my life at IBM (until 2017) and met a bunch of smart and driven people there (yeah, not all of them); IBM invested in me and I learned lessons from my colleagues that help me to this day.

"IBMers don't believe in certifications" LOL! IBM probably invented them.
What a joy it is to realize at some client afterwards that this client doesn't have the most basic understanding of management - which you previously took for granted.

I earn my living turning business challenges into (tailored) IT solutions and thought the Red Hat acquisition was a smart one. Oh yeah, been running linux (Gentoo) on my desktop since ~2001, learned RHEL & CentOS on IBM's dime. Yeah, still running Debian for servers regardless :-) But if I were running a Fortune 500 company I'd be running RHEL no doubt about it.

How some have fallen since Triumph of the Nerds (which I loved for what it was). I guess it's easier to be yelling at the sidelines than to run a 300+K people company or deliver on a Minecraft server promise :-)

So, as a humble member of the greater IT business I call BS on this story/rant.

I've had a love/hate story with IBM for years, all the more so when I worked for them.
But guess what, in a company that size the smartest person doesn't always win, the best way forward doesn't always ends up being the on implemented but I did spend 9 of of my 10 years running Linux as my primary OS. As a tech geek that (still) counts for something. It saved both IBM and it's clients a bunch of money and I was exposed to (and allowed to fail on) a great many business related matters which I once thought weren't all that important.

So yeah, go ahead and count IBM out on the account of someone who hasn't delivered a single working solution in this lifetime - afaik ;-)

Not sure why I'm taking the time to write this - must be fond memories after all.

Right, the fact that Google pushed Chrome on it's search page didn't factor into it at all.

Not to say Mozilla didn't/doesn't make any mistakes, but at least their users aren't the product

Second that.

1. maybe law was inspired by google's testing car which did have a driver. If not, it still seams reasonable until driverless cars are considered mostly infallable
2. just a guess - why not make the driverless car owner responsible?
Plus given it's a driveless car something tells me law officers won't have to search for plate numbers anymore either.

Argh,

I just heard their latest ep this afternoon which contains the 'announcement'.
Finally I've got a decent iPod 'n all and they're calling it quits.

_WHY_ :'(

Loved the humour, loved the topics, loved the discussions and loved it all. In short nothing but love!

Good luck to you all and something tells me we'll hear LugRadio again after the live event anyway :)

And of course there's still the linux action show, linux outlaws, tech link show & apparently the uk ubuntu podcast by (iirc) alan pope goes recommended by jono so I suppose there'll still be plenty to listen & subscribe to :)