<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I spent a summer porting code for BGL at IBM, and, coming from an academic environment, I was really surprised by how nerdy and technical the IBM'ers were. One guy spent night after night trying to get Linux (and Windows) running on his new Intel powerbook. Another guy (or maybe the same guy?) was super excited about the new GCC compiler coming out. I had mainlined the koolaid that xlc was obviously the best compiler for a power6(?) chip but he earnestly wanted to see the optimizations that had been built into GCC 4 - think of a Trekkie on the eve of a new movie release - that excited for gcc4....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Along similar lines, IBM seemed to be unique in their emphasis on patents. Their metric was (and probably still is) well above the per-capita average in a tech company. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As a grad student then, the really novel feature of the culture was the constant reminder that we had to pay the bills (grad students - at least in my case - have a funny ignorance of where their tuition waivers come from...). One "old guy" in particular asked me every morning, "So Nathan, how are we going to sell a Million Blue Genes? How are we going to make it so that everyone in the world wants one of these?" </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:52 AM INKozin via Beowulf <<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">exactly my thoughts (even though i have not worked there, talking to its employees was enough).<div><div>it's attitude towards open source is not exactly promising.</div><div>the recent github deal comes to mind but at least MS is declaring to be more open towards open source.</div><div>and at least there is an alternative in that case - gitlab.</div><div>what would be an alternative to RH? certainly not a single one. </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 07:43, Tony Brian Albers <<a href="mailto:tba@kb.dk" target="_blank">tba@kb.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-software-company-red-hat-for-34-billion-idUSKCN1N20N3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-red-hat-m-a-ibm/ibm-to-acquire-softw<br>
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I wonder where that places us in the not too distant future..<br>
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I've worked for Big Blue, and I'm not sure the company cultures are<br>
compatible to say the least.<br>
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/tony<br>
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