{"id":860,"date":"2005-10-24T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2005-10-24T16:21:43","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T14:21:43","slug":"holy-papercup-manufacturers-of-doom-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/24\/holy-papercup-manufacturers-of-doom-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy papercup manufacturers of doom batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 1998\/1999 RedHat Inc. became the first truly successfull Linux distribution. Prior to that only two companies had really made a commercial success of free software, cygnus at first (though they got greedy later and went non-free and that made them bankrupt so redhat bought them), and VA-Linux systems, which later renamed itself to VA-software as the systems industry shuddered it&#8217;s final dying spasms.<\/p>\n<p>This week however, saw the founder of RedHat, Bob Young <a href=\"http:\/\/distrowatch.com\/weekly.php?issue=current\">resign from the board of directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Young of particular interest is his later venture, the one he will now be involved with full-time. Young founded <a href=http:\/\/www.lulu.com>lulu.com<\/a> the online alternative publishing house (my own book &#8220;Batteries not included&#8221; is published by lulu), which opened up the doorway for many writers who simply would not sell out far enough for the mainstream publishing world to accept them, to nevertheless get their work out there and read.<\/p>\n<p>Young has now left the software world behind permanently to focus on this contribution to the world of the arts, and more power to him I say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the resignation of RedHat&#8217;s founder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,3,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aj-venter","category-art-and-tech","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-dS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":877,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/should-nathaniel-go-open-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":860,"position":0},"title":"Should Nathaniel go Open ?","author":"AJ","date":"01 November 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Well he asked me the question, so I reckoned I owe him an answer. 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N. Katherine Hayles'\u00c2\u00a0How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics was hugely influential on my dissertation and thinking, and I still cite her regularly in my classes and texts. Here her ironically titled book re-members (that is, embodies again) how humans\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/31qhlzzvgGL._SX331_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":57,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/22\/sad-day-for-research-that-promises-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":860,"position":3},"title":"sad day for research that promises change","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 April 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter. Could this possibly be for real? (need free subscription) I know we are in dire straights and all, and we are yet again (thanks Mr. Bush) looking for simplified \"answers\" instead of posing good questions, but how could big names like Henry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":862,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/862\/","url_meta":{"origin":860,"position":4},"title":"&lt;3 hours","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 October 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it's less than three hours til Colleen Alborough's opening, and for all you leets out there, that's a pun which says that it's the lovin' time where we show our hearts to Coll and help her finish setting up, and prep everyone for the opening. 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