Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
#FOSDEM #hypocrisy
3
1
4
Morten Linderud
Foxboron@chaos.social
Well...
Keynotes have a special place in the schedule.
Employees, while some own stocks, do not sit on a board nor have actual say in the operation of said company. Nor are they billionaires exploiting workers for their own benefit.
Reducing this to some black and white metrics is stupid. There is more nuance here.
1
0
0
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoSeriously, I don't know the history of Jack so it could be that I'm talking about evil person who attended to Diddy parties or something similarly fishy.
It's not my conference and FOSDEM obviously what they want. And people can think what they want on topic. This is just how I see it.
1
0
0
Let's just say that I stand in the position that ALL keynotes that I've ever heard in my life did suck, and thus maybe that reason I don't give that much weight to Jack's performance ;-)
I don't even care those Linus' and Dirk chats albeit I respect both (Dirk hired me to Intel so I'm even thankful to him for helping me out when Nokia fell down).
That said, there is one thing I remember Linus saying in LinuxCon EU 2014 that has stuck on me: "If you reach for the starts, you might hit yourself to the moon". That's the only cool thing I've ever heard in any keynote or fireside chat alike session :-)
0
1
0
matzipan
matzipan@hachyderm.io@jarkko there is nothing wrong with an employee being a proporțional part of the shareholder structure of the company.
The difference is that the capital owner (such as Jack) can continue taking in profits which are disproportional to his contribution to the company. At the same time, if he stops working, he does not have to worry about enough money to cover his living costs. The employee would have to worry.
1
0
0
0
0
0
matzipan
matzipan@hachyderm.io@jarkko employees are fine. Owning class can go organize their own conference.
1
0
0