Daily Archives: 2021-01-28

Article note: The illustration of an angler-fish labeled "Business model" with it's head light-dangle labeled "UX" is a delightful summary of the situation.

Article note: Good for Greg!

Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers.) (credit: Ctrl IQ)

Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a sponsoring company for the upcoming Rocky Linux distribution.

Rocky Linux is to be a beneficiary of Ctrl IQ's revenue, not its source—the company describes itself in its announcement as the suppliers of a "full technology stack integrating key capabilities of enterprise, hyper-scale, cloud and high-performance computing."

About Rocky Linux

If you've been hiding under a Linux rock for the last few months, CentOS Linux was the most widely known and used clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Kurtzer co-founded CentOS Linux in 2004 with mentor Rocky McGaugh, and it operated independently for 10 years until being acquired by Red Hat in 2014. When Red Hat killed off CentOS Linux in a highly controversial December 2020 announcement, Kurtzer immediately announced his intention to recreate CentOS with a new distribution named after his deceased mentor.

Article note: Almost everything about the (self)mythologization of entrepreneurship, and especially tech entrepreneurship, is utter bullshit. This is the most egregious and probably the best known. Like ...almost everything else in society... making sure people have healthcare and financial security is the better move than listening to entrenched survivor-ship-baised bullshit.