Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > Specifically, it says: > > "Do you think the Red Hat model would apply equally well to other > areas of software? " > > "Red Hat's model works because of the complexity of the technology we > work with. An operating platform has a lot of moving parts, and > customers are willing to pay to be insulated from that complexity." > > "I don't think you can take one finite element - like Apache - and > make a business out of it [using our model]. You need product > complexity." > > Presumably Steve Litt's point is that Red Hat has to make the > internals complex so that there's complexity to shield the costomer > from.
Steve's is a classic non-testable paranoid conspiracy hypothesis. These have had fans on a recurring basis in (among other places) Steve's native USA. https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ (Richard Hofstadter essay has never seemed more timely, and I don't mean in relation to Steve's theorising.) -- Cheers, Rick Moen Diaeresis: Keeping the cow out of co-worker since 700 AD. r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
