I'm also someone who entered the field for money. As someone who grew up in a family of poor immigrants who pushed me to work hard and opened the door to opportunities that I'd have never been exposed to in their home country, it's really great to know that my family will never have to endure that hardship and will enjoy one of the highest qualities of life and that I can give back to my parents who struggled to give me this quality of life.
If anything, one of the challenges I face raising my own family is to make sure my kids don't become complacent and squander the opportunities available to them.
They did, but they still seem to be clearly leading among commercial linux distros, and the software they push keeps getting adopted while Canonical's does not. To me this reads as strategic maneuvering by Red Hat within the Linux ecosystem, and they're doing great at it, from what I can tell.
I write that as someone who finds them to have astonishingly poor taste and wishes they would knock it off, so I'm no Red Hat fan—but they do seem to be succeeding at some kind of broader own-the-core-software-of-Linux-outside-the-kernel-without-technically-owning-it strategy, by steering Gnome and systemd and having significant control over a complete (and, conveniently, architected such that it causes a ton of work for everyone who doesn't just adopt Gnome) replacement of heart of the GUI stack. Not that Canonical's much better (OMG, Snaps, WTF are they thinking)
Snaps are pretty fantastic for IoT, which is where we started. We have some sucky things to fix for snaps on the desktop, such as astartup performance and permission handling when you want to go outside the sandbox, but we will fix those.
If you really care about security and reliability across multiple Linux distros, then containerised software distribution is particularly challenging. But it's a fun technical challenge, and we have an amazing team that's dedicated to getting it right.
Our goal is very secure, very reliable, very seamless software distribution across any Linux, and as far as I am concerned it's great that there are multiple teams working to figure out that hard problem. How lucky for you that we're not all just stuck with one option!
Some of them presumably are? Redditors are notorious for not being able to distinguish creative writing exercises from reality. Throw in the various methods of vote manipulation that the less scrupulous marketing folks there are surely using, and it is hard to imagine that a large fraction of highly upvoted Reddit product testimonials aren’t fake
Exactly. Reddit’s culture acts as an anti-spam, anti-shill immune system. That’s not to say it’s perfect, but it’s quite a bit better than the typical search engine or social network at weeding out content-spam and other bs.
No, we're trying to provide similar functionality, but we're not just cloning it down to the API. We have some of our own philosophy, for better or for worse, about what a good BaaS should look like.
