A CEO of a multi-billion corporation who actually tries to keep up with his technology down to the nitty gritty details. No wonder RedHat is going well!
He probably did. Quite a lot of Red Hatters have a story about getting an email from Jim out of the blue asking for help with some crazy-ass nerd project he's working on. He once mailed me asking about getting the out-of-tree Poulsbo drivers working (which is something I was messing around with at the time) for some funky device he was trying to get Fedora running on.
He's not a full-time engineer or anything, but he's as much of a tinkerer as many/. readers. That was one of the things that got him hired as
[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
-- Joseph Campbell
A CEO who can code, that's a news! (Score:2)
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A CEO of a multi-billion corporation who actually tries to keep up with his technology down to the nitty gritty details.
You are assuming he wrote all his own replies with no help from any of his 10,700 employees.
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He probably did. Quite a lot of Red Hatters have a story about getting an email from Jim out of the blue asking for help with some crazy-ass nerd project he's working on. He once mailed me asking about getting the out-of-tree Poulsbo drivers working (which is something I was messing around with at the time) for some funky device he was trying to get Fedora running on.
He's not a full-time engineer or anything, but he's as much of a tinkerer as many /. readers. That was one of the things that got him hired as