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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • This should be non controversial. RH is complying with it’s obligations to those that it distributes to. Alma, Rocky, Oracle and Amazon have all built RHEL competitors based on RHEL. Red Hat shouldn’t be obligated to do the work for it’s commercial competitors. And let’s not delude ourselves that RH and IBM are not major contributors to the Linux eco-system upstream. The issue here is that competitors want to have patch for patch RHEL and the back ports from upstream for free.


  • If the complete deployment will run on a high end laptop, I would suggest it’s cheaper and easier to make the devs us local development on kind and Docker Desktop. The licenses for Docker will pay for itself, and you will be able to control costs. Also, you will incentize devs to optimize the stack to run in local dev. For the Mac users, it means a $4k laptop.

    As a developer, I really like the local dev experience vs deploying everything. On my Mac M2 Ultra, it’s more than fast enough for my env.






  • I would argue that this whole thing will delay or devalue the IPO. Institual investors will look at this rather public fight and question his leadership. And the whole attempt at damage control makes him look bad. The only investors that will look past this fiasco are those who are doing the long play, and even then, they likely won’t want Spez involved.

    From a risk perspective, Reddit has just highlighted it’s biggest risk: the volunteer moderators. The only way Spez will be able to fix that is to replace moderators with AI or paid moderation teams. At an estimated value of $3.4M, and a company that is not profitable, that increases the risk in terms of the business model.

    In general, social media is inherently flawed for profits. The path to monetization is ads and data, and the fact that Spez is now squeezing the users make me think that the value of the data and the ads is not producing the returns to compensate for dumb ideas like the NFT project.