You may remember that Mark Webbink, former general counsel at Red Hat, is retiring at the end of this month. In order to maintain his level of mischief and fun, he has kicked off a new blog. I was worried about missing out on Mark's sense of humor and insight to the industry, but it looks like I worried in vain.
Already he has confirmed and extended my suspicions that IBM is desperately trying to hem in Red Hat (on both the application server side with Novell (bonne chance!) and the operating system side with Sun). He's also commented on Ubuntu and on SCO's demise.
Thanks for staying with us, Mark. I've subscribed.
I received a sad piece of news today in my email: Mark Webbink is retiring from Red Hat, effective at the end of August. (I post this news with his permission.) Mark was Red Hat's first general counsel (starting back in 2000), and lent fire, intelligence, and a sense of humor to the company both publicly and privately.
He will be missed.
Mark is leaving on his own terms, and very amicably. (I was at Red Hat last week, and there is clearly no ill will between him and the company - quite the opposite.) In fact, he'll continue to represent Red Hat as special counsel on a range of matters. (Perhaps when apt historical references are required, he'll be the 'go to' guy. :-)
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