Comments on: Red Hat chief calls for idealism, reform, sharing

What's wrong with the United States? It's too much like the New York Yankees, says CEO Matthew Szulik.

If you don't like US policies Redhat, then move to India

Redhat is just pissed because they know that the US market is where the money is and they can't get it. Unconstitutional my ass. They have this hysterical idea that if I write a program, I should be forced to release the source code. Not in this life. Not to educate their idiot programmers.
The open-source software (with few exceptions like MySQL, Apache, Zend, etc) is truly a a joke. Written by a hodge-podge of unorganized, arrogant, ego-maniacs who spend their time bickering amongst themselves (just look at all the forked projects), bashing Microsoft and clients who just can't seem to make their crap run without support. What a surprise. And especially, what a joke!
India and others are directing their anger at us through competition. Right! By creating substandard applications and providing support that runs along the lines of non-existent because they cannot speak proper english. They don't want us to share our wealth, they want to steal it by bidding 5.00 on a 6 week project. Just look at these ridiculous sites like ELance and others where these incompetant morons bid 100 on a substantial development project. They barely speak understandable English. Just call a customer support desk who outsources to these morons. More time is spent on the phone trying to decipher what they are saying than actually doing anything productive.
I, like many others are refusing to do business with companies that outsource to those who cannot speak legible english.
As for open-source, it could be successful if any one actually gave a damn about quality and customers. News Flash: just because your stupid enough to work for free doesn't mean the US owes you something. I dont' want Redhat forcing open-source crap on me anymore than I want Microsoft locking me into their OS. So Redhat, if you like India so much, then go peddle your wares to them and leave us to our wealth.

[TurboG]

OMG

Who screwed you and left you with all this anger?

Try therapy, or anger-management, instead av bashing and attacking just about everyone but your-self. It might just help you with your situation, ya'know...

Being a non-US citizen, being able to speak and write english, although maybe not as well as a "true american patriotic US-citizen", I would have been offended by your post if I actually could be persuaded to take it seriously.
Being a believer the open-source-movement, I would have been even more offended by your rampant attacks an all and everyone involved with or working for or using open-source software. But again, your post just seems plump and very mis-directed.

My guess is, you lost your job when the company out-sourced your position to a company in, could it maybe be India? And now you want to take out your anger on all foreigners and just about everyone else? Grow up and do something useful instead!

Thats some bashing 'george'

george you seem to have a real strong grudge against india. i suppose the reason to it could be, you loosing yur job to an indian.
i am an indian and i suppose that our skills in english are no less than yours.
Dont blame it on us for having to get support from us but question your own people who are hell bent to send jobs to india to save billions of dollars.
i feel really pitty for you. coz love us or hate us we(india and indians) are here to stay.

If you don't like US policies Redhat, then move to India

Redhat is just pissed because they know that the US market is where the money is and they can't get it. Unconstitutional my ass. They have this hysterical idea that if I write a program, I should be forced to release the source code. Not in this life. Not to educate their idiot programmers.
The open-source software (with few exceptions like MySQL, Apache, Zend, etc) is truly a a joke. Written by a hodge-podge of unorganized, arrogant, ego-maniacs who spend their time bickering amongst themselves (just look at all the forked projects), bashing Microsoft and clients who just can't seem to make their crap run without support. What a surprise. And especially, what a joke!
India and others are directing their anger at us through competition. Right! By creating substandard applications and providing support that runs along the lines of non-existent because they cannot speak proper english. They don't want us to share our wealth, they want to steal it by bidding 5.00 on a 6 week project. Just look at these ridiculous sites like ELance and others where these incompetant morons bid 100 on a substantial development project. They barely speak understandable English. Just call a customer support desk who outsources to these morons. More time is spent on the phone trying to decipher what they are saying than actually doing anything productive.
I, like many others are refusing to do business with companies that outsource to those who cannot speak legible english.
As for open-source, it could be successful if any one actually gave a damn about quality and customers. News Flash: just because your stupid enough to work for free doesn't mean the US owes you something. I dont' want Redhat forcing open-source crap on me anymore than I want Microsoft locking me into their OS. So Redhat, if you like India so much, then go peddle your wares to them and leave us to our wealth.

[David Arbogast]

UGH

Well, that's about the most unAmerican thing I've read this month. Why can't people like Szulik actually stop and think for a minute.

Szulik wants all software to be free? Because other countries see us as stingy and greedy? Szulik, in order to relieve the US of the burdon we have placed on ourselves in the eyes of other countries (your idea), would we not have to extend this idealism to all of our assets?

Isn't it interesting that he only wants to apply his philosophy to the one segment of the market that will help his company PROFIT while removing profits from his competitors? AH HA!

Hey Szulik... when you give away your services for free, I'll give away my software. I could use some free support... please call me. C'mon now, don't be greedy and "...unwilling to share [your] wealth..."

[kxmmxk]

Give Me a Break

Why is it always the people that have done the work, made the effort and sacrifices, to get something (in this case technology) that are the bad guys???

People that don't will always resent those that do, that's the darker side of human nature. Always has been. But it's hardly the fault of anyone that has.

And giving it away, or 'sharing', doesn't work either because the ones on the receiving end correctly recognize that they couldn't do it on their own, and that will always be bitter.

That is hardly the problem of the US. We do all the work, feed everyone, protect everyone, bend over backwards for everyone, and yet we are the bad guys.

Give Me A Break