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RedHat CTO Brian Stevens Steps Down

posted by n1 on Friday August 29 2014, @07:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-tip-of-the-fedora dept.

E_NOENT writes:

Longtime employee and CTO of RedHat is leaving the company.

“We want to thank Brian for his years of service and numerous contributions to Red Hat’s business. We wish him well in his future endeavors,” said Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat.

ZDNet reports:

Stevens' eyes may have been wandering elsewhere because of conflicts with Red Hat's president of products and technologies Paul Cormier. Cormier will be taking over the office of the CTO for the time being.

His future? It's unclear but it's possible he's moving to greener pastures, "a major California-based technology company."

Commence wild speculation! What does this mean for RedHat and GNU/Linux? Anything?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Friday August 29 2014, @01:50PM

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Friday August 29 2014, @01:50PM (#87190) Journal

    The abysmal quality of RH's stuff over the past few years suggests they need to get rid of all management and start over. RH is losing in the worst possible way. They need to get their priorities straight.

    Yet oddly, their priority seems to be to turn RHEL 7 into an imitation of Windows server by forcing a bloated init system, whose features (even if you actaully want them) are clearly for desktops only, into to one of the most widely used enterprise Linux distributions out there. That one is purely for business reasons, because it sure doesn't make for a good, and certainly not a secure, server. I truely believe if anything will be their undoing, it may be systemd.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 29 2014, @01:58PM (#87193)
    I hear they make money from support.

    Go figure.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday August 29 2014, @08:28PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday August 29 2014, @08:28PM (#87357) Journal

    I truely believe if anything will be their undoing, it may be systemd.

    Unfortunately, they used their influence to force so many other distros to adopt it that it will soon be the linux standard init system, and due to the depth of systemd's hooks it will become impossible to get rid of. If it isn't killed off in the next year, it will be here forever.

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    • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Saturday August 30 2014, @12:20AM

      by digitalaudiorock (688) on Saturday August 30 2014, @12:20AM (#87399) Journal

      I think there are enough out there who feel as I do, and will not use any software that requires systemd, to prevent it from truely becoming a necessity. Making end user software dependent on a specific init system is a bug plain and simple..and a LOT of people feel that way. I really do believe that there are enough people out there who just won't stand for it to prevent this mess from totally taking over.

      The number of folks out there who simply will have nothing to do with that piece of shit is huge, and apparently includes folks like kernel developers. Something's gonna give with this one eventually.

      While it's certainly gained a big foothold, this battle is far from over.